Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short Game. In the vacation department, Ike's face was burned cherry red, his cough cured, his humor high, and he tackled Augusta's tough and tantalizing course every afternoon. He found his drives booming, his short game mediocre but good enough to score him in the high 80s. Evenings, in a long-established vacation ritual, were spent around the bridge table at "Mamie's Cottage." (Mamie herself took to her bed for a two-day rest, flew back to Washington at week's end to get ready for a heavy social week...
Respecting the Spirit. From the preamble to the end of the short (1,000 words) document, it was evident that Nasser was anxious to get business, to show himself conciliatory, and to proclaim Egypt's respect for law. The document declared Egypt's "unaltered policy and firm purpose to respect the terms and the spirit of the Constantinople Convention...
Sailing for Europe, Novelist John (The Short Reign of Pippin IV) Steinbeck did not yet know the happy news: the state of Oklahoma, which fussed and fumed at his portrait in The Grapes of Wrath of poverty-stricken Okies fleeing their drought-struck land, had at last forgiven him. After Steinbeck told an ABC-TV interviewer that "I've spoken against dust and I've spoken against poverty, but never against Oklahoma," Oklahoma's Governor Raymond Gary named him a member of the Governor's Staff of Oklahoma Boosters...
Recorded end to end, all of the gags about old British movies on U.S. television would be no more than a beep compared to the clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series...
...matter how diffuse the poetry may be, it is solidity itself when contrasted with the prose. Ernest Hemingway has been a bad influence on practically everybody, but his one great merit was to show that a short story should more often than not say one thing as quickly as possible...