Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the real basis of the bitter conflict that culminated in the charges against Oppenheimer were laid before the finger of suspicion was pointed at him. His mood in 1945 was one of deep conviction that he and his colleagues had to change the world, that they had to triumph over men who might, through stupidity and immorality, betray society-which Oppenheimer, at least, had only recently discovered, and which had become precious to him, as his salvation from what he considered the sin of Alamogordo...
...explosion broke the stillness of a mid-Pacific morning on Nov. 1, 1952; at 7:15 a.m., observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
...primitive" and "godawful." Since few players know the original music, they must resort to improvising. This is especially difficult since, according to the terms of the gift, the bells must be played in the Russian manner. When the monks rang them, they kept the largest bell swinging continually, its deep bass forming a background for the rest of the weird chorus. Operators claim that once the big bell get going, they are unable to hear anything else...
...hour out from Hanoi, Colonel D. blacked out the plane. A few minutes later, Sergeant K., hunched over a radio set, reported: "We have contact with Dienbienphu." Deep down below us, a brilliant white light floated in the air for a few seconds, then died out-perhaps a Communist mortar flare. Luciole started weaving on a gentle, irregular pattern...
This year, as spring came again to Russia, Moscow's sprawling Kotelnikovsky Bird Market was once more achatter with chittering demands for freedom. Russian shoppers dug deep into their jeans for the three rubles (75?) it cost to watch a caged bird soaring freely once more...