Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about it." The gesture led to the sole customer at the bar-a short man, with a shabby coat and a weary stance...
...Student Council last night recommended to the Faculty that tutorial be made optional for non-honors juniors. The vote overruled the report of the Council's executive committee, which called for continued compulsory tutorial, but stopped short of CEP recommendations that it be eliminated altogether...
When Rhoden ran short of teen-age films a year ago, he thought up likely titles (e.g., Dragstrip Riot) and passed them on to producers, but the supply stayed short of Rhoden's demands. "Now I make the picture myself," he says. "I have two trucks, cameras and sound equipment. If I need a barroom scene I just rent a barroom...
Coexisting with barely concealed native primitivism is the specter of violence. Even among these easygoing people, murders are not rare. Author Dermoût describes three of them, in short stories not too successfully interpolated to flesh out her book, but each one in itself a tale of dark fascination. Only at the end of the book, and late in life, does Felicia realize that life is action, and that even those who are murdered are really "killed in action...
Curb Service. In Oklahoma City, E. G. Albright discovered how the city makes $125 a day in an overtime-parking crackdown: he parked his car at a spot where there was no meter, returned a short time later to find a ticket on his windshield, a meter in front...