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He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).
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He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
In 1687 the Turks, who had been in control of the city since the fifteenth century, with a truly shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a powder magazine.
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.
The horses seemed to know these by instinct, he used to say: such places invariably had stables with superior feed bins.
As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.
A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.
In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.
The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.
The nonreactors had been separated into two groups on this assumption with the presumably `` secure '' nonreactors and `` secure '' reactors being used as the groups for comparative personality studies.
While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.
The P.D.I. and later the Popular Movement protected the Istiqlal's `` privileged position '' until the fall of Balafrej, and then the Istiqlal used the same argument, which it had previously ignored, against the pro-U.N.F.P. tendencies of the Ibrahim government.
When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.
Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.
He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.
Its entire complement of non-commissioned officers on the platoon level had departed as cadre for another unit, and its vehicles were still those used in the drive across Luzon in World War 2.
I took the piece of pipe from Charlie's hand and used it, harder than he had.
Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.
Principal Clayton W. Pohly said he would allow a further collection between classes today, and revealed that Y-Teen Club past surpluses had been used to provide a private hospital nurse Monday for Mrs. Kowalski.
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The book was written in the same year as the attack on Pearl Harbor, while its hardcover publication coincided with the Communist victory in China ; with the PanAsians being both Chinese and Japanese, it had a direct topical relevance in both cases.
Topical immunosuppressants like pimecrolimus ( Elidel and Douglan ) and tacrolimus ( Protopic ) were developed after topical corticosteroids had come into widespread use.
The first time bluegrass music had its own entries in Music Index was 1987 ( Stratelak, 1988 ). There is no strict definition of bluegrass, although there are clear derivatives — the topical and narrative themes of many bluegrass songs are highly reminiscent of folk music.
This production, while following the spirit and tone of the original series in many respects, was set contemporaneously at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, with BlackBerrys frequently in evidence, and even included a topical reference to a coalition agreement which Sir Humphrey had drafted ( the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats having formed a coalition government in Britain in May 2010 ).
Laugh-In had its roots in the humor of vaudeville and burlesque, but its most direct influences were from the comedy of Olsen and Johnson ( specifically, their free-form Broadway revue Hellzapoppin '), the innovative television works of Ernie Kovacs, and the topical satire of That Was The Week That Was.
One topical strip had the seagull boycotting Gaston's car after seeing a bird stuck in an oil spill on television.
When, in 1953 Theatre Workshop decided relocate to Stratford, London, MacColl, who had opposed that move, left the company and changed the focus of his career from acting and playwriting to singing and composing folk and topical songs.
Wide and socially mixed audiences were attracted by topical writing and by the introduction of the first professional actresses ( in Shakespeare's time, all female roles had been played by boys ).
" “ In England, what West and Copley did together was to create a new kind of history painting, one with modern, topical subjects, chiefly death scenes of heroes, in a historic manner, but with scrupulous attention to contemporary detail ” ( Johnson 441 ) The American was duly introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds and was taken to " the Royal where the Students had a naked model from which they were Drawing.
Shortly afterwards he made a daring appearance on the BBC topical panel show Have I Got News For You, which at the time, Edwina Currie apart, was still awaiting its first truly top-level Conservative guest who had some history to them.
MEMRI responds to criticism by saying that the media had a tendency to whitewash statements of Arab leaders, and regularly defends its translations as being representative of actual ME viewpoints, even when the translations themselves are disputed: " MEMRI has never claimed to ' represent the view of the Arabic media ', but rather to reflect, through our translations, general trends which are widespread and topical.
Scottish's flagship evening programme Scotland Today had previously been revamped from a regional news programme into a topical magazine show supplemented by short bulletins.
During an appearance on the Channel 4 topical panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats ( 26 May 2006 ) he revealed that he had been voted the " World's 6th Sexiest Jew ".
In an article written by Louise Ward and others, the effects of noxious and non-noxious counterstimuli, such as heat, physical vibration, or chemical stimulation on skin, were studied in healthy adults after they had experimentally induced itch ( transdermal iontophoresis of histamine ) and pain ( with topical mustard oil ) in their skin.
Although the film was written and production photography completed in late 1967, it was released after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in early 1968 and thus had some topical relevance to then-current events.
The animals and plants shown often had moral or perhaps political significance that is not always obvious today ; the Chinese-style ink wash scroll by Kanō Eitoku of Chao Fu and his Ox, illustrated in the gallery below, illustrates a Chinese legend and contains a " Confucian moral points to the dangers inherent in political position ", a very topical message for Japan in the period following the disruptive civil wars caused by naked political ambition.
Regulars included Lance Percival, a satirist from TV shows of the time who sang the Start the Week intro theme as a topical calypso, and Zenna Skinner, a TV presenter of fitness programmes who had a wide variety of outrageous opinions, some of them humorous.
The discursive arenas, such as Britain ’ s coffee houses, France ’ s salons and Germany ’ s Tischgesellschaften " may have differed in the size and compositions of their publics, the style of their proceedings, the climate of their debates, and their topical orientations ", but " they all organized discussion among people that tended to be ongoing ; hence they had a number of institutional criteria in common ":
A scientific study found that the application of topical arnica had no better effect than a placebo in the treatment of laser-induced bruising.
Locke discontinued the Nasby Letters a few years before his death, since the times had changed and Nasby was no longer topical.
This was introduced live on camera by Head of Drama Michael Barry, who had already appeared on the Monday's edition of the topical news programme Panorama to defend the production.
Goldwyn expected the film to be as successful as The Best Years of Our Lives, but it proved to be as " tepid and old-fashioned " as Granger feared and, opening after cease-fire negotiations with Korea had begun, no longer topical, and it died at the box office.
After the 20 July 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, Morell treated him with topical penicillin, which had only recently been introduced into testing by the U. S. Army.
The show had many regular contributors to various topical segments:
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