Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Berlin to Bari, from Malaga to Manchester, the news of the Russian bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) struck with vastly varying impact. In some places, it cut deep along taut nerves; in others, it slid smoothly off the backs of nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great...
Some men predicted inevitable war. Said an Istanbul taxi driver: "As long as only the Americans had The Bomb, the Russians were afraid to make war. Now they won't hesitate...
Some distance away toward the south, in a field near Limoges, Hunters Louis Autef and Jean Riffort bowled over a rabbit with a long shot. As Autef stooped to pick up the beast, the rabbit kicked the trigger of his shot gun and sent a load of shot hurtling into the shoulder of Hunter Riffort. The hunter was rushed to a doctor. The rabbit hopped...
...been driven by superior Communist force from his capital Sining. A dispirited fugitive, he rested in a Hong Kong flat last week. But, unlike Fu and Tung, Ma was not ready to bow to Moscow. Last week he announced that he would shortly leave-by airplane on a long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...Series of Quarrels. Guay told police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...