Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurber chooses the comic motif, yet in this process presents to the reader's (perhaps subconscious) appetite a number of themes primary to our age. For Americans sex and war have replaced food and physical danger as cardinal concerns, and new symbols are needed to connote these fears. Thurber has answered with the rabbit myth...
...pilot may have to glide in at an angle of no more than 4°, then skip out to cool off as soon as he has slowed down a bit. He may have to repeat this a dozen or more times, taking terrific punishment from buffeting in the process...
...performance intently. The Alfa Romeos came next. The first came into the turn too quickly and hit the brakes. The right rear wheel locked and the Alfa blasted through the hay bales. No injury and no damage resulted. Vag watched the second Alfa, a white one, repeat the process...
...made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates Yo'-Yales," let their monster...
General Development has lined up several hedges against a slump in Florida land sales: a new chemical process to plate chrome directly onto aluminum, and a private utility system that sells water to its housing developments. But the Mackles do not worry about a slowdown in housing. Says Frank Mackle: "Anyone can sell when the housing market is good. But when the market gets tough and choosy, we can really go to town because we can undersell the competition...