Word: amissions
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...friend who had moved to the West still goes home once a month to visit his parents. He is always afraid something amiss will happen, but one day Erich took me with him. The Mullers did not know an American was coming, and they were frightened when I was introduced but very gracious. The table in their dingy living-room was soon filled with cakes and cookies, and we began to talk...
...being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual, in a hut by a gangplank. But in the morning, workmen found that some 30 of the Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands...
...worse. Weak and miserable, with stomach cramps and nausea, he was confined to his old-fashioned brass-knobbed bed in the third-floor corner chamber of the palace, while his physicians checked him meticulously to try to find out what was wrong. They seemed to find nothing organically amiss, attributed his illness basically to age and overwork. At week's end, the Pope seemed improved. Though still very weak, he was taking more food, it was announced, was able to hold hour-long conferences with top Vatican officials...
...then the camera work goes amiss when photographer Joseph Martin covers his lens with a black mist. He has presented at least half the film in almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does not seem to fit the action in some places, a little too blaring when Captain Phoebus captures Quasimodo, a little too violiny when Esmeralda prays to the Virgin Mary...
...children to give himself up. The family tumbled out of the car, he said later, "like dead flies, cramped and almost too weak to stand." Marian irritably scolded his wife for being clumsy. Drahomira burst out crying. Then they learned that guards had checked the train and found nothing amiss...