Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their enormous speed. Only a few are big enough to reach the earth's surface before they evaporate. Once in a great while, a really big meteor smacks the earth with a vast concussion, digging an "explosion crater" like the one near Canyon Diablo, Ariz. Such craters are rare. Unless the meteor hits in an arid region, its dent is smoothed down quickly (in terms of geological time) by erosion and other natural forces...
...with the eye of a mule trader sizing up a parson; after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley...
...Cliff Mooers went into the oil business, made some fortunate strikes and became president of the Shasta Oil Co. That gave him a chance to do something else he wanted to do: he established a deer sanctuary on his Texas ranch where he ran everything from mule deer to rare muntjac barking-deer imported from India...
While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week...
...this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied the pans of the quicksilver talent they have been mining these past three years, mixed it with their usual painstaking care and imagination and the resulting creation is indeed pleasant, satisfying, and rare...