Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modest suburban house with a flagstone entryway. In the dimness of a tiny front room sat the hunted old man. There was no mistaking Admiral Suzuki, although he wore a commonplace green uniform with no medals or brass buttons. He was a tall, impressive figure, grey-haired, with a short-clipped mustache and a winning smile. His greeting was cordial, but he looked about him carefully when they entered...
...others, without knowing it. In the Medical Record last fortnight, Manhattan's Dr. Anthony Bassler reported that he had sampled 1.500 fellow Manhattanites, found that 8% had amebae in some degree. He thinks dysentery may be the real trouble in many unexplained cases of lack of ambition, short-term diarrhea, aching legs, poor memory and "irritable" or jumpy pulse...
...bled on the Zero Hour, one American, one Canadian - and if anything bad was said, they said it. The continuity was written, she said, by a Captain Charles Cousins, an Australian captured at Singapore, and a U.S. Army captain named Ince. She first went on the air as "Ann" (short for announcer), and later expanded the name to "Orphan Annie, your playmate." (She never used Tokyo Rose, the G.I. name for her. ) It was all a lie, also, she insisted, that she had opened her program by saying: "Good evening again to the . . . forgotten men, the American fighting...
...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
About 30 minutes short of the end, an improvised coffin is borne solemnly to rest in a resonant stone vault. Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...