"You must all wear these spectacles in the city." He leaned forward and whispered into Dorothy's ear. "It makes everything look green -- much easier t...an painting everything."Dorothy slipped on the spectacles, as did the others."Even you, little fellow," the Soldier said, as he put a pair of glasses on Toto."Now," the Soldier said, straightening up. "You must all freshen up." He sniffed. "You smell of the road -- and other things."Dorothy nodded. The Soldier led them through the door and closed. Work progressed well. I was finishing the roof. From my ladder, I saw Mr. and Mrs. Cameron drive away. Soon afterward, Goldie came outside with some towels and jumped in the pool. She swam for a while, and then got out and dried off.“Alex?” she called to me from her lounge chair on the deck.“Yeah?” I was nailing shingles on the side of the roof away from her.“I'm going to work on getting rid of my tan lines. Will that bother you?”I thought, “Bother me? Hell no!” Trying to be a. This so-called rumor isn’t worth the effort it would require to disprove, or deny.’ ‘How did I handle that?’ asked Gwen once the reporter left. ‘I thought you did great, except that I worry about your grandmother’s reputation,’ replied Steve, attempting to keep a straight face. ‘This is exactly what Governor O’Leary warned us about, except it’s happening much sooner than I expected. If people believed stories like that about us, we’d have no reason to even consider any sort of public service.’. D. to reconfirm that a nuclear attack was in fact under way. Two minutes later, she was told that there was indeed a nuclear attack under way and that it appeared that one of the missiles appeared to be heading toward Moscow, two toward western Europe, and one toward the eastern United States.A very grim, pale, shaking President Kathleen Lehrer thought for about fifteen seconds before she issued the orders that she hoped that no one would ever have to issue."Launch our missiles," said President.