Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after reporting for duty. The books were on history, sociology and economics-quite a shock for an officer who, a few days before, had been leading jet bombers across the Atlantic at 40,000 ft. as commander of a SAC B-47 squadron. "Has the Pentagon gone off its rocker?'' the colonel asked a classmate. "What the hell are we supposed to be doing here...
...Danes were a success. Ted Shawn heaved a sigh of relief; his importation of the troupe represented a personal risk of some $10,000. But the acknowledged dean of U.S. dancing has been taking risks all his life. One night last week he leaned back in an old rocker on his farmhouse porch, poured himself a tall brandy and soda, and reminisced about...
...violently disapprove of the government of China, and are not going to accept that government under present conditions in any organization where the U.S. has any say. He added, however, that he could not predict conditions in China five years from now; he would be a little off his rocker if he tried. So he was not going to try. He was always ready to see whether the sinner reformed and was ready to come into the fold, the President concluded...
...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...
...hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl's parents are torn by anxiety and self-accusation, her aunt rocks clean off her rocker, the whole town is talking malicious gossip. All at once the girl reappears, unharmed. Q.E.D.: small towns will be small towns...