Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event?an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
There were no complaints from Moscow. The event was casually ticked off in a 74-line item in the back pages of Soviet newspapers, but the Russian capital hummed with speculation about the bomb. Washington noted that Joseph Stalin had advanced by a full week the agreed date for his declaration of war on Japan. That was taken as official Soviet recognition of how fast the bomb might...
...Another event in March involved one of the great military decisions...
...Event. Sunday-supplement readers had long been warned that if ever an atom were split, the whole world might blow up. Yet when the great event occurred, only the scientific world quivered...