Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coale considers all the possibilities. If war starts after a spell of international atomic control, there will be a period when few bombs are available. Each nation will frantically start producing more. At the same time, each nation will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...
This studiedly angry study in moral philosophy is charged with the same sophomoric ferocity as his best-selling Generation of Vipers was. But this time Wylie has some leaflets to scatter as well...
Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President's scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he did in a highly retouched photograph (see cut) issued by Sovfoto, the official Soviet photo service. If Stalin imparted any immortal confidences and earth-shaking forecasts, Elliott hasn't revealed them...
...Wildlife Service, had too many strikes against them. They reproduced slowly. Their protracted lovemaking customs were a liability. During the breeding season they would gather in flocks on high knolls, parading, capering, bowing and prancing in careless ecstasy. While crane-boy was getting crane-girl, pioneers crept up with scatter-guns and mowed them down...
...Britons ever sang the second stanza of God Save the King. Anyone who did sounded as if he were instructing the Almighty in the tone of an irate football coach bawling out a quarterback between halves. It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save...