In the trilogy's second volume, Harriet boards the last flight to Athens; in the third, the Pringles ship on a commandeered rustbucket to Egypt, hardly half a day ahead of the Nazis.
In a world where the "appropriate" response to virtually everything is commercially co-opted and aggressively peddled, it's hardly surprising half of us are on drugs or in therapy because we don't think our feelings are quite what they should be.
Getting into a good preschool was rough, but in those nave old days, we hardly knew the half of it.
But a "dirty bomb", made by packing conventional explosives around the nuclear waste and other radioactive materials that make up most of the lost or stolen material reported to the IAEA, would be horribly disruptive.And reported cases may hardly be the half of it.
This study among a sample of 475 patients consecutively consulting their South Tyrolian GP with LBP demonstrated that hardly more than half of the participating GPs were likely to follow local guidelines on LBP whereas the other half seemed not to follow guidelines at all.
To fully control malaria we need about $5.1bn, yet today we hardly manage to secure half of this.
Now it has hardly any, and more than half of its capacity has been converted into permanent residential quarters.
Also, after hardly budging in the first half of the 20th century, the English vocabulary expanded at a rate of 8,500 words a year in the second half, leading to a 70% increase in its size since 1950 (see chart).Amusingly, Dr Michel found that some words added to the "American Heritage Dictionary" in 2000, like "gypseous" or "amplidyne", had been in widespread use a century earlier.
The results for the first half of 2001, while hardly spectacular, were a decided improvement over six months ago, when Pacific Century reported an $886 million loss after writing down the value of its Internet investments.
