Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly discovered that for years the signs have been spilling over with misspellings that nobody ever noticed. One notice allowed that the black bears are "excellent swimers." Another, for the red fox, whose Latin name Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent...
...Idaho class in the exact position where Indianapolis should have been. Even though old battleship Idaho was near by, nobody gave it a second thought-the Japs were always making such claims. Nobody stopped to figure that with his sea-snail's eye-view, a Jap sub commander could mistake Indianapolis for Idaho...
...Black Notebook. At Ike's side, standing at the summit of government, Milton could easily have carved out a sub-empire of his own. But in the following five years he has placed himself in full command of nothing but the job of easing the President through the toughest job in the U.S. Ordinarily mild mannered, he can be firm in dealing with those who would add unnecessarily to the presidential burden. After Ike's 1955 heart attack, Attorney General Herbert Brownell began collecting Cabinet suggestions for lightening the President's burden. Brownell carefully compiled...
...never to be the same again after the young wife's blue lace girdle turns up among the lost-and-found items of an all-night country club bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story in the book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This...
...clearly as he can see life's darkest side from its calmest vantage point. Nabokov teaches European literature at Cornell, is also a dedicated lepidopterist who has discovered about a dozen new species and subspecies. He disclaims all but a writer's interest in nymphets. To get sub-teen patter right, he took rides in a school bus. He obviously also learned much about roadside America. Says he: "I love motels. I would like to have a chain of motels-made of marble.. I would put one every ten minutes along the highway, and I would travel...