Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting to short-sleeved women judged by the doorkeeper insufficiently dressed to enter the basilica. (After the hawker had made friends with the doorman, few prosperous-looking women got to see St. Peter...
...formidable task before them. "We must recognize that our Lord knows of only one church. He wills that there be but one sheepfold and one shepherd. In one of the most solemn moments of His life He prays with moving intensity that we may all be one . . . It is high time that we, who through four centuries have so lightly taken the presence of this division for granted, pay sincere heed to the warning which these His words contain for us. And there is a further task. The striving for the unity of Christendom must burn into our consciousness...
...shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge was hiding behind a newspaper on the bus, wearing dark glasses to cover her swollen eyes, dressing in long-sleeved, high-necked blouses. In the evenings and on days off she never left the house, says she, because "I looked so terrible...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...
Earth Waves. But underwater bombs and bombs exploded on a tower above ground smack the earth hard, as high airbursts do not. Seismic (earthquake) waves, shooting off in all directions, can be picked up at tremendous distances. Earth waves from Test Baker were detected by many seismographs on the U.S. Pacific coast, 4,300 miles away. Even the Alamogordo bomb, exploded on a loo-ft. tower, sent out earth waves that were picked up at Tinemaha, Calif., 710 miles away. Specially sensitive seismographs, ringed around the U.S.S.R., could pick up earth waves from a bomb exploded underwater or reasonably near...