Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some sample Tebbetts observations: ¶On a promising pitcher: "Major-league stuff and a great arm. Screwy in the head. Eliminate head, and I recommend. Get good surgeon...
Beyond Mombasa (Columbia). "The natives," observes one sweat-drenched bwana, "are growing uneasy." Then one of them catches it right in the back-a poisoned dart from a blowgun. He's a goner, of course, as soon as the stuff hits his bloodstream. More nervous mumbling from the natives ("They say this is a bad omen"). Evil forces are clearly trying to prevent Cornel Wilde from rediscovering the uranium mine found by his late brother, poor devil, who was murdered by a steel-clawed Leopard Man. Also barring his way, on his Technicolor plunge into spine-tingling British East...
...have the President of the U.S. as a captive audience at a time of interservice wrangling over defense funds is the kind of dream that military stuff is made of. Last week the U.S. Navy made the most of every split second of its dream-come-true. At the instant that Dwight Eisenhower was piped over the side of the supercarrier Saratoga at the new carrier base in Mayport, Fla., two F4-D Skyray interceptors were shot off the forward steam catapults at 141 knots to prove the capability of even a dead-in-the-water carrier...
...Video Theater. Good Music-Making Perry Como gets a relaxed substitute in 27-year-old Julius La Rosa, who will pull a 13-week tour in color. Says NBC's Program Director Manie Sacks: "When you are perspiring, it's a lot easier to watch the music stuff...
Grades draw attention because they underlie the whole system. Except for tutorial, all formal education at the College is evaluated in twelve steps from A to E. Lectures, reading, quizzes, essays are all treated as things to be marked, or the stuff from which to make an examination...