Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito made a trainside speech about "our fates being inseparable," despite the fact of "something unheard of and tragic" having taken place in the recent past. He expressed the profound conviction that "nothing of the kind will ever happen again between the two countries marching along the path of Marx...
Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas has made as much news with his ascents as his dissents. Of Men and Mountains, his Thoreau-like reflections on mountain climbing in the Pacific Northwest, scaled 1950'S bestseller lists. The previous year, a hike up the peaks of Azerbaijan near the...
Everything Enormous. The country to which they were bound was Siberia. An area nearly twice the size of the U.S., stretching across the top of the globe from Europe to Alaska, bound by polar wastes in the north and the world's largest mountain ranges in the south, Siberia...
THE TORTURED EARTH, by Gert Ledig (219 pp.; Henry Regnery; $3.75), is a fearful book about men whose substance has become nothing but flesh and fear. A German battalion is before Leningrad, and this is its obituary. The major in command, learning that his wife and child have been killed...
It is the effect on future generations that is perhaps most frightening, because it is most unknown. One authority on radiation, who was prevented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from discussing his report at last summer's Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, said that radiation...