Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-adjournment vacation in Newport, R.I., where the Navy base people and townsfolk have proudly dressed ship for his arrival. Length of his stay will depend on the weather; if September brings Newport rain and fog, or hurricane weather, the President will pack up for warm, balmy Gettysburg in short order. Moreover, the Middle East situation weighed heavily on the President last week; if it deteriorates, he wants to be in Washington or close by. At week's end, just in time for vacation, Ike went to Walter Reed Hospital to bring home Mamie, now convalescent after her hysterectomy...
Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...
...come down with Asian flu, and the disease can sweep coast to coast in a month's time, those who get it without immunization shots, Dr. Burney reemphasized, will have "a relatively mild illness with symptoms which are commonplace accompaniments of many everyday illnesses in our society." In short, Asian flu, though it beds most patients for four days, is not a deadly disease...
...Short, tight skirts-fashionable women are not supposed to walk...
...arrogant, vain and unfeeling-a child in a permanent lifelong tantrum. When her huge, ferocious dog kills a small terrier, she insists it was the terrier that attacked; when the critics accurately describe her work as ludicrous, she insists (and firmly believes) that they are spiteful, jealous fools. In short, as one character says, she is in the grip of a force that is either "genius or lunacy...