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Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing ticking away over in St. James's Park. Like all veterans, they were glad that the war was over, and yet the ticking of the bomb carried an echo of past excitement into the grouchy drabness of peace...
...thinking was slower than his own. Stalin was diffident (says Trotsky, from a sense of intellectual insecurity), deliberate (says Trotsky, from craftiness), grossly rude (says Trotsky, from an innate brutality). His mind was probing rather than comprehending, calculating rather than incisive, and its speed was that of a delayed fuse...
...immediate problem was how to help China's dissident factions translate general agreement into specific cooperation. Marshall struck straight for the specifics-a truce in China's civil war and a plan to fuse China's rival armies...
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...miniature set is a descendant of the famous proximity fuse-which was a complete transmitter-receiver in the nose of a 5-inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils...