Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionally land-warfare-oriented U.S.S.R. is an army of 160 divisions. It is the only major army in the world that has been completely re-equipped since World War II. Troop transport, at the moment, is not an urgent problem; Russia's army is already well deployed along the Soviet-satellite borders in the west (for potential use against the West or the satellites) and beyond the virgin lands in the east (for potential use against the West or the Chinese Communists). Even so, she is building a big modern fleet of jet and turboprop transport planes-potential troop...
...powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations just to prove they have not beaten anyone up. The mere suggestion of brutality can mean loss of pay or demotion...
...Covered Throne. For the duration of the conclave the cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
Munro feels that the combination of hour exams along with five staight away games is responsible for the Crimson's relatively successful, but still disappointing showing. At any rate, the honeymoon is over and the Crimson will have to prove itself today...
...nowhere, I had the word, and the word was round. It was the time, and I set off along quiet streets--past the football field, looking for kicks; past country gardens, digging the carrots and onions; and then ahead of me I saw the curving, calling, mystic, roaring highway. And it was the time, and Schaefer was my kind of beer, and I was gone...