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Word: multimotored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...LONG NIGHT, by Martin Caldin (242 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $3), drops a fictional atom bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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