Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at TV which I hate. For such a huge country I think its lack of traditions, glamour and culture disgusting. Furthermore, tiny England is always being criticized, but Russia, nearer your own size, gets away with anything, including murder. I'm just saving until I can skip this lousy burg...
...Lowell had an assist from underdog Eliot. Bob Bradford, John Finley, Bob Hoen and Skip Jencks joined in the scoring against Winthrop...
...bill through the legislature requiring a runoff between the two top candidates if neither gets a majority. Last week the bill failed, and Republicans were figuring hopefully that the heavy Democratic vote might be so thinly spread among the twoscore Democratic candidates that Republican Hutcheson could skip through with a small plurality. Moreover, while Hutcheson's competition is tough, it is by no means overwhelming. Leading the Democrats is Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, a sure vote getter but a chronic loser (three times for governor, once for attorney general). And Liberal Yarborough is bound to lose chunks...
Readers who recoil from a total recall of basic-training days had better skip the novel's second half, which follows the hero into the Army. The writing here is as concentrated and about as interesting as K-rations, e.g.: "This is the U.S. rifle, calibre thirty, MI. It is clip-fed, it is air-cooled, it is gas-operated...
...treatise is divided into three sections: Some reminders on substance, Formal aspects of the thesis, and Some other mechanical points. Skip the last if you're rushed. The first, while brief, makes two very important points. It begins, "A thesis should have a beginning, a middle, and an end." This seems reasonable enough, but Hoffman then suggests that it really need not have a middle when he says, "A reader should be able to read the opening and concluding portions of the thesis and at once have a clear idea of what the author is talking about and of what...