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71Company (short story) — 1st edition (publ. John Calder) Company is a short novel by Samuel Beckett, written in English and published in 1979. Together with Ill Seen Ill Said and Worstward Ho, it was collected in the volume NohowOn in 1989. It is part of Becketts closed… …
72Nebula Award for Best Short Story — Winners of the “Nebula Award for Best Short Story” . The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below. Contents 1 Winners and nominees 2 See also 3… …
73Waldo (short story) — infobox Book | name = Waldo Magic, Inc. title orig = translator = image caption = 1942 original publication magazine cover author = Robert A. Heinlein illustrator = cover artist = country = USA language = English series = genre = Science fiction… …
74cut someone short — INTERRUPT, cut off, butt in on, break in on. → cut * * * cut someone short phrase to interrupt someone who is talking so that they cannot finish what they are saying He tried to explain, but Anita cut him short. Thesaurus: to interrupt someone… …
75To fly off — Fly Fly (fl[imac]), v. i. [imp. {Flew} (fl[=u]); p. p. {Flown} (fl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flying}.] [OE. fleen, fleen, fleyen, flegen, AS. fle[ o]gan; akin to D. vliegen, OHG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj[=u]ga, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us …
76I, Robot (short story) — I, Robot is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder (nom de plume for Earl and Otto Binder) about a robot named Adam Link.It was published well before the unrelated and more famous book I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.It was adapted for an episode …
77Stand-off missile — Standoff missiles are missiles used against land based targets in an offensive operation; their main goal is to break an opponent s defensive line and push them back. Often, a stand off missile is also a short range ballistic missile.Types of… …
78Terra Incognita (short story) — Terra Incognita is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov that was first published in the émigré journal Posledniya Novosti in Paris in 1931. Translated by the author and his son, the story was published in English in The New Yorker …
79cut short — [v] bring to an end; leave unfinished abbreviate, abort, abridge, break off, check, diminish, end, finish, halt, hinder, intercept, interrupt, postpone, quit, shorten, stop, terminate; concepts 121,234 Ant. continue, lengthen, prolong …
80snap — I. v. a. 1. Break short, break short off. 2. Bite, seize, catch at, snatch at, snip. 3. Crack (as a whip). 4. Twang. II. v. n. 1. Break short. 2. Crackle, decrepitate …
