Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...though it was broken up by a nap after lunch, as often as not there was a briefcase full of evening homework. Harry Truman, said his doctor, was down to 173 Ibs.-about right-but he was "under a terrible strain. Ordinarily, he can pass things off, political battles and things of that kind. But this [Korea] is different...
Orville opened his office to all comers, stocked it like a gift shop with articles to pass out to voters. With the help of a "strong man" city charter pushed through by his supporters, Orville chopped the once-dominant city council down to size, hired & fired department heads at will (Dr. Marvin Buell, city health officer, attained fleeting fame by rendering a difficult triple-tongued selection on the ocarina while the mayor formally fired...
Alongside the road, their faces buried in the grass, lay the exhausted. soldiers who had dropped where they stood, for precious minutes or hours of sleep. Most of them had not had anything that could pass for sleep in four days. One stubby G.I. looked sadly at an officer and said: "Major, if they'd just put me up on top of that hill and in a foxhole, I'd fire that gun. But my legs just can't make...
...greatest of ease he captures a group of space pirates who try to hold up his ship in mid-stratosphere, invents a velocity intensifier which ups his ship's speed to 670 million m.p.h. As his crowning feat, he manages to immaterialize his spaceship so that it can pass straight through the planet Jupiter, then materialize it again on the other side. Author Nelson Bond, who used to write westerns, has merely put a Space Age icing on the old Wild West conventions. There is even a land rush-not by bumpy covered wagons, but by spaceships streaking away...
Author Stinetorf makes only one pass at romance, quickly drops it in obvious discomfort. Her story might have been better as nonfiction, but its air of authenticity (Louise Stinetorf was an educational missionary in Palestine, spent her vacations in Africa) and its very unawareness of the niceties of fiction keep it from sounding like a bad novel. It is just primitive enough to be fresh...