Word: skips
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...determine just how far the comic muse can tickle you. You'll wince at one or two moments, but have a delightful time and then come out wondering just why you laughed so hard. And, oh, yes, a quick glance at any reputable time-table will help you skip the second feature, something incredible...
...Prong. The Japanese chose their first landings well (see map): near Serang in the west, a hop & skip across the Sunda Strait from invaded Sumatra; on the broad, open coasts of Indramayu Bay, 160 miles eastward from Serang; at Rembang, another 225 miles to the east. Thus the Jap with three strokes sliced up the northern Javanese coast, flanked the capital of Batavia, the Army's mountain fortress at Bandung and Java's chief naval base at Surabaya...
...newspapers have one advantage: there are no ads on the front page. Further more, the human eye has learned to skip ads it does not wish to read, whereas the human ear still has difficulty tuning out commercials. Some commercials sound more obtrusive in a newscast than others...
...peels at 8-to-8 in the tenth head as the skip stepped up to the crampit to deliver his iron. Up the ice with the soopers stood the vice-skip, Dentist Henry Hudson, his broom at the ready. Suddenly Dr. Hudson dropped his broom, clutched himself, yelled "I've been shot...
Probably not even General Hershey realized the full implications of what he said. Congress is accustomed to appropriating billions of dollars, or conscripting a few millions of selected men for battle, but to conscript the entire able-bodied population for national service would make even Congress' heart skip a beat...