Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity a subject of levity? The prof goes whooshing off to Washington, circumflivverates the Capitol dome, lands on the White House lawn and triumphantly reveals the latest wonder of science to a "flubbergasted" world...
...Recipe (as prepared by Disney's special effects department): To 1 lb. saltwater taffy add 1 heaping tbs. polyurethane foam, 1 cake crumbled yeast. Mix till smooth, allow to rise. Then pour into saucepan over 1 cup cracked rice mixed with 1 cup water. Add topping of molasses. Boil till it lifts lid and says "Qurlp...
Then again, Yale has an excellent freestyle distance man, 2:05.7 in the 220 and 4:22.1 in the 440. Yalies have long pointed to the infallibility of a certain William Chase, up till now the fastout in the East. Against Chase's times stand those of Zentgraf (2:07.5) and George Mulligan (4:48.8). But Chase had better watch...
...gently return him to the cruel, FBInfested world. After doing 18 months in a military prison, Demara borrows the warden's admirable prison record, gets a key job in a Texas pokey, makes a hit with staff and prisoners alike before he has to run. And so on till the hero joins the Royal Canadian Navy as a doctor, requests active service, performs spectacularly as a battle surgeon in Korean waters, gets his name and picture in the papers, finds himself exposed as an impostor and hailed as a Walter Mitty who makes his daydreams come true...
Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...