Word: dreadfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 0730, after Parsons had cut the umbilical cord linking Little Boy and the Enola Gay, the bomb was "final"-a mighty instrument of war. Four minutes from the unsuspecting target city, Parsons threw the toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that...
But another explanation soon turned up. Studying Kierdorf's dreadful burns, pathologists concluded that the victim wore no bathrobe when he was hurt. Moreover, he had been dabbed with salve before he arrived at the hospital. A neighbor remembered a Cadillac at Kierdorf's house the night he...
Joe has energy all right; he is writing a thesis, plays catch with his wife and sons, and runs a troop of Boy Scouts. But Author Barth matches him with a crushing tragedy in the face of which his pragmatism is meaningless and his nihilism a cheerless thing. The agent...
At 20, young Tom Swanson is doing his postwar Army turn at a quartermaster depot near Bordeaux, France. Militarily, the place is a joke. The company captain is a whisky-tippling, well-intentioned weakling who has never successfully crossed the no man's land that separates officers from enlisted...
Not really a bad fellow, he begins to understand what he is doing. Guiltily, he asks to get out of the shabby joke, but his friends will not let him out. "Like kids playing with ants," they push the joke to its logical, dreadful conclusion-a conclusion in which Bardem...