Word: arrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation of vast armies . . . has been definitely outdated by the atomic bomb. In the event of any future conflict the most vulnerable point of attack will be any point where people are massed together. ... Armies as we have known them are as out-of-date now as the bow & arrow, and the sooner we realize it the better...
...anesthetics have replaced sick-making ether, or made it possible to use much less. Hangover-proof cyclopropane was first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...
...fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string...
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...fast that whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure...