Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kennan, in brief, recommended "a policy of firm containment [of Russia] . . . with unalterable counterforce at every point where the Russians show signs of encroaching"-until the Soviet Union either "mellows" or collapses. Kennan detected in Soviet power "seeds of its own decay." He also believed that the U.S., meanwhile, could show the world that it was a nation of "spiritual vitality." If it could only hold, therefore, the U.S. and democracy would...
Jackie spoke to his teammates only when spoken to, and his replies were brief and polite. He had long ago made it a rule to "let them make the first move." Soon after the season opened, the Montreal players were with him. It took longer to win over some of the fans, and the other players in the League...
Except for his 1926 appearance as Messala, Ramon Novarro's competition in the Ben-Hur chariot race, and a brief bit in Wilson, Bushman never appeared on the screen again. But in the last 16 years he has played 2,500 bit parts in just about anything radio had to offer, from Red Ryder to One Man's Family...
Buster Keaton, heavy-lidded Great Stone Face of silent films, flew into Paris for a brief new career. The once-famed comedy star, pushing 51, faced a spell of circus clowning (at a reported $200 a day). His new task, to last a month: 14 minutes of sham dueling, twice a day, with the Cirque Medrano's bandleader. His other plans for the future? "None...
...plutonium pile has been used only for research, where it has been extremely useful: "The fast reactor gives a more intense source of fast neutrons than physicists heretofore have been able to obtain, except during the brief time of the test of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert...