Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population of Hungnam-elderly men & women with their belongings wrapped in white cloth, young mothers with their kids strapped papoose style to their backs, and every older kid for miles around who had heard about the big free boat ride. As the LST settled slowly into the mud under the weight of its load, R.O.K. troops herded all the passengers off by shooting bursts of burp gunfire over their heads. The 4,000 Koreans scrambled blithely ashore...
...like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...
Until the Houses were opened, in 1930 and '31, there had been virtually no change in parietal rules for 20 years. The gist of the rules was that "no young woman, unattended by an older woman, should be received in a student's room," and only with the permission of the proctor during the evening. This applied to all dormitories, and to the rooming houses where the College maintained proctors...
...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...
...sort of modern Everyman, Randall has Everyman's troubles with Nobody's ability to handle them. On page 11 he meets an "older woman" of 26 on a London tram. Only 20, and at his author's mercy, "Randall saw the full lips and not the weak chin," and so they were married. "Her hot shallow passion . . . roused convulsive feelings in Randall . . . The deep wells within him gushed with tenderness . . . And then peace descended on them both . . . like night coming down upon a tropical sunset"-in a London hotel...