Word: roundabouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unlike his great predecessors, Jules Desfourneaux lacked the grand manner. After each job, he economically removed the cords that bound his victims and stuffed them in his pocket for use on further occasions. His work made him nervous, and he often took roundabout routes to a date for fear of assassins or kidnapers. He was a quiet little man, known to few, but those few always noticed that when he took Communion at church, he pulled on his gloves to receive the host while others took theirs off. In 1934, his only son was drowned. Some...
...writes straight with crooked lines," muttered an old woman of the island as she poked her peevish fire. In her roundabout way, she was meaning Vera Reilly and Martin Gallagher and she was right in at least this much, that no human hand" could make straight the vexatious scribble of their lives...
...roundabout way, word came to London from Spain that the Festival of Britain's description of Sir Francis Drake as "the first man to sail 'round the world" just wasn't so. Drake set sail in 1577, patriotic Spaniards pointed out, and Portugal's Ferdinand Magellan started in 1519. Though Magellan was killed (on Mactan Island) before going full circle, his crew completed the trip...
Electrons in the Raw. Meanwhile, the doctors are trying something new with the betatron. Previously they used it in a roundabout way-shooting a stream of electrons against a platinum target, which produced X rays, and then aiming the X rays into the patient's cancer. The new technique is to use the electrons in the raw. The advantage: whereas an X-ray beam keeps going after it has passed through cancerous tissue, and may cause "exit burns" where it leaves the body, the electron beam can be focused to hit the cancer site and then dissipate itself...
...Films) is a little French comedy with some charm and inventiveness, but not quite enough to fill out its time. Cynical and sentimental by turns, the movie shows how a resourceful gang of urchins bring a measure of prosperity and spiritual uplift to the slums of Montmartre by the roundabout device of kidnaping pedigreed dogs...