Word: outerness
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Many thought it might get dropped on us, or that we'd have to drop one of the damned things on somebody else-and you know who-pretty soon. But if the atom bomb was admittedly a terrible thing, so were faceless men from outer space, microbes of all sizes and the possibility that the earth might hit a star, and they had all been in the American Weekly years ago. Whether you got killed by an atom bomb, an automobile, poison gas, poison whiskey, a blockbuster or a spear, you were dead and probably didn't know...
Citizens of Saskatchewan's prosperous little Simmie (pop. 100) were bored. Ever since Christmas they had been snowbound. Twelve-foot drifts blocked their roads to the outer world. Once a week a train (one coach plus cattle cars and boxcars) chuffed in & out, and then silence lay upon the grain elevators along the C.P.R. tracks, the general store, blacksmith shop, barbershop and garage...
...Germany's death approached, Annie, realistic as always, realized that she, too, must fall. For several days, the crew sadly reported approaching Yanks. On the fatal night, grave messages came over 1212 with disturbing frequency. Suddenly the broadcast was interrupted by excited voices, a scuffle in the outer room, shouts and shots. The hated Allies were seizing the transmitter! "Put on the record, the RECORD!", a German voice shouted. And as Annie began, so she died, with the reedy, recorded Rhenish tune...
Theoretically, spaceships could be steered (around the moon, for instance) by shooting out side-blasts of gas or radiation. When returning to earth, they could be slowed down gradually by coasting in a lopsided spiral through the outer fringes of the atmosphere. If they should hit the denser air unbraked, they would turn as white-hot as a meteor...
...Ulan Bator Khoto, capital of Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia, went Chungking's formal recognition of Outer Mongolia's "independence." By giving up all claim to what had once been her frontier province, China paid the price asked last August in the negotiation of the Sino-Russian Treaty...