Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it looked as though there would be a new face in Moscow even though Harry Truman stayed in the White House. Leaving ugly, gloomy Spasso House for a vacation in the U.S., Beedle Smith admitted only: "I have handed in my resignation according to form. What the New Year will bring I don't know." Newsmen who watched him pack up all of his personal belongings before he left guessed that he was not planning to come back to Russia...
...what the first one had carved on the rock. In Latin he had written : "Laugh at your own stupidity, but do not laugh at the misfortunes of a poor man." In French, Italian and Dutch he had repeated (soon after Copernicus and before Galileo) a sentence so as to form a circle: "So moves the world...
Tacho held back and sulked, mumbling defensively about the Legion. But when the investigators, who had flown around Costa Rica with Junta President José Figueres and President-elect Otilio Ulate, moved on to Nicaragua, Tacho was in his best form. Beaming warmly, he poured out explanations and complaints...
...when it is just starting its first magnetic merry-go-round and still needs adjusting. The deadly neutrons give no warning; there is no sensation of light, heat or pressure; the effect may not be felt for years. But the neutrons can cause cataracts much like those that sometimes form with old age. One difference is that cyclotron cataracts are on the back of the lens...
...Revolution. The article* contained few facts that were new. Yet it was big news. For it pulled together the whole kit & caboodle of Stalin's essential beliefs, the beliefs on which he bases his decisions. It was the first time that this had been done in such concise form. Historicus presents a scholar's brief packed with bobtailed quotations of tortured Marxist prose. Following is a decoding of what...