Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's job was keeping the children healthy with balanced diets and three checkups a week. The father was their stout shield against excessive publicity. He tried to hide the quints' birth by registering them separately, and when the secret got out, he turned away reporters with short answers: "They are just children. Go find yourself a road show...
...Short Stop. When Kent was born, no way was known to relieve a condition like his. But when he was three, Dr. Glenn's team at Yale School of Medicine began experimental operations with a little black and white mongrel. Of the two great veins carrying blood back to the heart, they tied off the upper one and diverted its flow directly into the pulmonary artery leading to the right lung-thus bypassing the right side of the heart. The dog got along fine. When Kent Murray, now seven, entered the hospital last February, Dr. Glenn was ready...
...dreaming of more sophisticated schemes for long-distance flights. One of these is an engine whose nuclear fuel is a uranium-rich gas mixed with the hydrogen propellant. When the nuclear reaction starts, both gases will get hot and blast out of the nozzle. This would produce a magnificent short-duration thrust, but the wasted uranium would cost something like $150 million per takeoff. The way around this little difficulty would be some system to keep the heavy uranium atoms in the reaction chamber while permitting the hydrogen to escape. No one now knows...
...face of last week's news, there was none of the panic that followed the Suez crisis. European oil stocks are at high surplus levels, big enough to handle any short-term emergency. France has enough oil on hand for ten weeks, Germany for twelve weeks, Great Britain for four weeks. The industry has developed greater flexibility as a result of the valuable lessons learned during the Suez incident. A tanker shortage no longer exists; some 437 vessels totaling 7,000,000 deadweight tons are laid up in Western shipyards ready to maintain a flow...
...Short, apple-round and learnedly garrulous, Ambrose ambles through his adventures preceded by a pillar of chaos. While bodies are felled and dark deeds are done all about him, the philosophy don lets Bach's Magnificat sing through his mind, ruminates about Hegel, and numbs his listeners with a flow of quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, major poets and minor limericists. On the track of a murderer, Ambrose, like an unleashed puppy, will spot a new scent-a hitherto unexplored connection between the Book of Kings and the lost Amazonian city of Pirahuanaco...