Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Kelly is right. Why be half-saved when it is much easier to be half-informed. Catholics, turn off your radios and TV sets, close your ears to this propaganda and live in ignorant bliss...
...that the Negroes and his gypsies share, that unabashed freedom of the instincts, the alignments with the primal emotions of all whose spirits are outside civilized society. To Lorca, these wooden people of the city are not merely estranged from a natural environment which they can reacquire by a turn in the park; the entirely of the mass of their mechanical civilization stands between them and the broken strands of their roots in Nature. They cannot operate naturally or seek the pronouncements of Nature, if they allow the city to regulate the temperature of their air, make night a flimsy...
Said "torpedo" had emerged from a long black Cadillac whose lights were out. "Torpedo" watched Costello turn some fifteen feet in front of him, and then fired one shot from his .38 at Costello's head. The bullet entered Costello's head beneath his ear, wriggled through skin for a short distance, and emerged without having touched the bone. Then the real trouble began...
...Austrian figure of fun, a degenerate young aristocrat who always says stupid things that are somehow not so stupid after all. Example: when the tide began to turn against the Nazis, Graf Bobby went into a map store one day and asked for a globe of Germany...
...explained that the planets, in the course of their history, have gradually lost some mass. The loss has resulted in reduction of gravitational pull, which in turn may have permitted a moon to get lost, he added...