Word: brief
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...magazine's epic voice, it expressed, at its best, a disciplined, moral understanding of history, an adult's steady gaze. In a brief introduction to the Victory section in the issue of Aug. 20, 1945, for example, TIME, in contemplating Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said this: "With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age. The race had been won; the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures created a bottomless wound in the living...
...private investigator to excavate the dirt on the independent counsel. A top Washington sleuth who may be looking into Starr's camp or its possible connections with Clinton's enemies is Terry Lenzner of Investigative Group International, who worked for the Democratic National Committee last year. In a brief interview, Lenzner denied that he was probing Starr, but before TIME could ask if he was investigating Starr's lieutenants he said, "I'm not going to answer any more questions," and hung up. At the White House, spokesman Mike McCurry denied that anyone in the Administration or on the President...
While the Czechs never tried to put up a bare-fisted fight against the mighty Soviets (as the Hungarians did in 1956), their brief experiment to reform socialism under Alexander Dubcek in 1968, crushed that same year with Soviet tanks, was the virus which infected Soviet communism two decades later...
...Wiggins' case, as with the majority of her fellow central Floridians at Harvard, such uncertainty was brief: the news from home was primarily of disaster averted...
...these two people who had the clearest window into Tadesse's psychology did not deem it important enough to take preventative action, how could others who merely had transient and brief contact with her be expected...