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"What sort of antidote?" the general asked more out of politeness than interest

"It's a set of electronetic frequencies that we think will counter the polar reversal"

"How do you plan to administer this 'antidote'?" the assistant secretary said, "with a big spoon?"

"I've got a few ideas"

"The only antidote I'd like to use is a torpedo right up their butt," the naval officer said

Everyone in the roohter

"Don't mean to be impolite," the assistant secretary said "Why don't you work your ideas into a report and get it to my secretary"

The h the labyrinth of corridors, he re with Gant, and his impression that he was not someone whose duplicity should be underestimated

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The Trouts had booked a beachside hotel room with a balcony that overlooked the harbor and offered an uni in Rio, they had taken turns sitting on the balcony watching the transmitter ships

Trout brought Gae juice and pulled up a chair beside her "Anything happening?"

Ga shipping dock on the other side of the harbor "The transot here"

Trout borrowed the binoculars and inspected three ships tied up parallel to the dock

"Did you notice that the liner is gone?"