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Updated: June 28, 2025
Again the spiteful drumming of the automatic: P. Sybarite swung round in time to see one of the plain-clothes men return the fire with several brisk shots, then abruptly drop his revolver, clap a hand to his bosom, wheel about-face, and fall prone. A cry shrilled up from the bystanders, only to be drowned out by another, but fortunately more harmless, fusillade from the garage.
He turned on his heel in an automatically correct about-face and strode out of the office. Melroy straightened out the papers and put them away, then sat down at his desk, filling and lighting his pipe. He was still working at 1215 when Ben Puryear called him. "They walked out on us," he reported.
"We understand, sir." He executed a perfect about-face and, followed by Astro and Roger, he left the lieutenant governor's quarters. Outside, the three cadets walked wearily toward the messroom just off the control deck. After preparing a hasty cup of tea, they sat about the table silently, each thinking about the long trip ahead of them and the difficulties they were sure to encounter with Vidac.
Carroll continued to look his son squarely in the eyes. "I stole it when they wasn't looking," said the boy; "there was a glass jar " "Go into the house and up to your own room," said Carroll. The boy turned as squarely about-face as a soldier at the word of command, and marched before his father into the house.
Tonans was reserved for perusal at breakfast. He reserved it because Tonans was an opponent, tricksy and surprising now and then, amusing too; unlikely to afford him serious reflections. The recent endeavours of his journal to whip the Government-team to a right- about-face were annoying, preposterous.
Turning with a shout, he brought the soldierly, middle-aged gentleman about-face with scant ceremony. "Hey! Colonel Castleton! See who's here! Doesn't this bowl you over completely?" Colonel Castleton, sallow, ascetic, deliberate in his movements, raised his glass to his eye as he came toward them. "'Pon my soul!" burst from his astonished lips a second afterward.
But I'm just going to be curious enough to block his little game so far as I'm concerned. I'm going to stick around!" Jerry had a hard time next morning explaining just why he couldn't go along on the proposed fishing trip. Tod was inclined to accept his excuses at face value, but Dave and Frank could not understand why Jerry should so suddenly about-face in his notions.
Around Mike the Angel, there was nothing but the swirling, blinding snow, the screaming, tearing wind, and the blackness of the Antarctic night. There was something damned odd going on here. Carefully putting the toe of his right foot to the rear of the heel of his left, he executed a one-hundred-eighty-degree military about-face. And breathed a sigh of relief.
I tried to get round him to dash a furious sentence or so in his face, since there was no producing any impression on his back; but he occupied the whole of a way blocked with wire-coil, and rope, and boxes, and it would have been ridiculous to climb this barricade when by another right- about-face he could in a minute leave me volleying at the blank space between his shoulders.
The people on previous UFO projects had gone off on tangents of speculation about the identity of the UFO's; they first declared that they were spacecraft, then later, in a complete about-face, they took the whole UFO problem as one big belly laugh. Both approaches had gotten the Air Force into trouble.
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