Word: multi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rattling Dance. The two electric trains quickly emerged from the tunnel; then, for the better part of ten minutes they sped along, one behind the other, through the multi-windowed darkness of Queens...
...holsters (many tied to their thighs to facilitate a fast draw) were so commonplace that those without them seemed a little underdressed, and those who still carried such outmoded armament as X-Ray Guns or Atomic Disintegrators, hopelessly oldfashioned. When firing, they sometimes seemed a little confused by their multi-programmed backgrounds; instead of just crying "Bang!" like older generation's, they imitated rockets and/or ricocheting bullets ("Ptche-e-e-e-e-e-w"), enormous steel springs ("Boing-oing-oing!"), or machine guns...
Eugene Higgins, himself, was colorful as only a multi-millionaire can be. Tall and imposing in stature, flourishing an enormous, wild-looking moustache, he was in constant demand in New York and Paris society. But, the most eligible bachelor of any year, Higgins never married. Disappointed in love, unfortunate experiences, and just plain stubbornness--all were given as reasons, but the truth was never known...
Dangling from multi-colored parachutes, 4,100 men and their jeeps, trucks and artillery dropped onto flat, dry rice fields. Within an hour the drops had been completed and Red troops in the drop area driven off. Within another hour the paratroopers had sealed off the two highways and rail lines along which the routed North Koreans had hoped to escape from Pyongyang. Said MacArthur: "It looked perfect to me. It looks like it closed the trap...
...patchwork quilt day, a day of multi-colored squares, a day which means something different to every individual...