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...long Scud traces its lineage to a 1940s design for the V-2 rocket, which the Nazis propelled into London in the waning days of World War II. NATO dubbed it the SS-1A Scunner, code-named Scud for short. The Scud-A evolved into the larger and longer-range Scud-B. By the early 1980s, the Soviets had begun phasing out Scuds in favor of the more versatile SS-23 surface-to-surface missile. However, Moscow did not stop selling the old workhorse. As a Soviet client, Baghdad took deliveries of the ballistic missile and improved on its range...
Along his path Dr. Jarvis has developed a scunner against high-protein diets, cane sugar and wheat bread (he prefers rye or corn). He has also picked up some vague racial ideas-that Americans should eat the same types of diet as their European ancestors, whether Nordic, Alpine or Mediterranean. Thus Nordics are urged to "live out of the ocean," eschewing good red meat and chewing fish instead...
Readers who want to give up the time to sit a spell and take it resty are sure to find a heap of olden tales calculated to scunner the young'uns with fright, like the one about the red-haired man whose head doddled about when he walked or talked, or some others that would pleasure them, like the one about a king's daughter that was a sight how pretty. This might well be the last chance, too, for as one old granddaddy after tother told Schoolma'am Campbell: "Tale-telling is nigh about faded...
Just what caused the committee's scunner against Pike was never made clear...
Long before he became president (at $100,000 a year), Norton got along with Avery only by speaking his mind. That worked until recently. Then the showdown came. It was stirred up by aging (now 74) Mr. Avery, who had a scunner on two of Ward's eight vice presidents. Avery decided to settle the matter in his usual fashion: he wanted President Norton to fire them. Norton roared: no. When Avery roared back, Norton handed in his resignation. Within 48 hours the eight vice presidents did the same. (Vice president in charge of personnel and public relations, Lawrence...