Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...after he had become a Ph.D. in psychology, he was made editor of the Tidings when it was a pallid sheet read as a duty by only about 10,000 of the faithful. A man whose sense of morality is easily outraged, Father McCarthy promptly declared war on the mores of the Los Angeles area, later waged personal feuds with Columnists Drew Pearson ("Vicious slander and irresponsible smearing") and Louella Parsons ("Cheap, meretricious twaddle"). He also hired some topnotch reporters and sharpened the style. ("Get rid of stodgy stories," he ordered. "The essence of journalism is sensation on the wing...
Green Scum & Twisted Steel. Since the crater was first shown to outsiders (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), its appearance has become less dramatic. There are no longer any lead-shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen...
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described...
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