Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mornings at his temporary office at Lowry Air Force Base, he signed congressional bills at a furious clip (292 last week). He usually managed to get away from the office before noon and hurry to Cherry Hills Country Club for a quick lunch, a round of golf and a rub ber of bridge. As the President settled down to the Denver routine, his golf score dropped from...
...room for citizens "arrogant" as hell, not overly circumspect about dinner companions, not averse to playing hide-and-seek with policemen. The military in a democracy does not, of course, put up with such peccadillos in its officers ... To which club do the scientists belong? There's the rub. If our brightest minds now are all "in the Army"-without benefit of uniforms-the police state already has conquered...
Murder mysteries, soap operas, and historical treatises rub covers with the papers of women who led suffrage, temperance, and educational crusades. These more famous records of important American women are shelved opposite publications by Radcliffe graduates, books on women, and the records of the college itself. The special collection on Women's Rights is placed separately in 203 Longfellow Hall...
...some unspeakable corner. As he's the one who has a chance, he's the one we have to find." At last they found him in a storeroom, doubled up in his death agony. "Grab him by the shoulders," snapped the doctor, "unbutton his trousers . . .Rub his legs." But within minutes "the last one" was blue, cold and dead. And dead, too, by the next night, was the valiant doctor...
Along the way, Author Michener dishes up a short-order Cook's tour of Japanese art, food, culture, idiom. His habit of breaking into pidgin English brings even his love scenes ("Oh, Rroyd, I rub you berry sweet") close to low comedy. For the rest, Michener is so busy swatting interracial injustice that he beats the life out of his story long before it is time to say sayonara, Japanese for goodbye...