Word: longbow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robin's Eggs. In Nottingham, England, retired Coldstream Guards Major A.M.G. Beattie swells his income by selling acorns from Sherwood Forest, mostly to U.S golf clubs, schools, agricultural colleges and longbow-struck little boys...
Fallen Archery. In Nottingham. England, the sheriff announced that an all-out search was being conducted for thieves who stole the arrow and part of a longbow from a statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle...
...peacetime life that have become the curse of war novels. There are some stereotypes but also some fresh, vivid portraits: Rokka, the veteran of the Winter War, who will fight his own way or not at all; Honkajoki, the eccentric pedant, who infuriates his officers by carrying a longbow into battle; Lahtinen, the Communist sympathizer, who wins a medal for bravery, yet takes a perverse pleasure in the stubborn resistance put up by the Reds...
...history of the club and the longbow and the musket teaches that the ICBM will probably not be the "ultimate" weapon in the sense that no defense can ever be developed against it. But there will doubtless be a period of years, perhaps decades, when the ICBM stands as the supreme, unstoppable weapon. Should the missile standoff burst upon a world unprepared to think about the new meanings, the ICBM could cause explosive political tensions that might even trigger the missile itself. What is important, then, is for the U.S. to approach the age of the ICBM with some hard...