Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Manolete when shown the picture in Madrid: "Not me . . . though the matador is performing a very fine 'manoletina.' I have never been that fat and since I've been a full-fledged matador I've never been that short either...
...Council chairman, Poland's Oscar Lange, called for the vote that really counted-the noes on the U.S. motion as a whole. Quickly he shot up his own hand. Then Russia's sullen Andrei Gromyko raised his. Thus, for the eleventh time in the short history of the United Nations, Russia had used the veto. The Balkan peace watch was dead...
...dangerous diseases of 20th Century civilization, and one of the least understood. They may have to modify the latter belief, for a group of British scientists have turned up what looks like a solid clue to the disease. Their discovery: high blood pressure seems to be due to a "short-circuiting" of blood circulation in the kidneys, caused by too much nervous excitement...
They celebrated the occasion with "a few short cheers for the Crimson" until a morning after headache transformed the historic New Haven battleground into the bottom of the soggy Lamont excavation of the George A. Fuller construction company...
...pair flashed considerable form as they flipped what could have been a pigskin, but on closer inspection turned out to be an emptied fifth, back and forth in short bullet heaves...