Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optimistic side, but it seemed to point up an important (though generally disputed) truth: the danger of war has not much to do with good or ill feeling between nations. For example, the chance of war-within-five-years between the U.S. and Russia was probably greatest during the era of good feeling in 1944-45, when the U.S. was making concessions which, if extended as the Russians tried to extend them, would have placed Europe and North China in Soviet hands. If the U.S. had waked up to confront Soviet power of that magnitude, war would have been imminent...
...era of good feeling ended in 1946, and the Truman Doctrine of 1947 stated a U.S. intention to contain Soviet power within (approximately) its present limits (i.e., within limits which do not make a war with the U.S. an attractive risk for the Russians...
Divorced. Jack Teagarden, 42, veteran trombonist of the pre-swing, Bix Beiderbecke era of jazz; by his second wife, Adeline Barriere Teagarden, 32; after four years; in Los Angeles...
...Lynch became a hard-drinking news photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad...
...only schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse. The pile's heat will generate steam to run a turbine. But this, thinks Dr. Hutcheson, may be only a better-than-nothing solution, carrying coal-era thinking into the atomic...