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Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their...
4. Much larger atomic charges are in prospect. Present discussion assumes that atomic bombs will be dropped from planes; actually, atomic charges can be adapted for delivery to a target as rockets, as robombs, or shipped in wardrobe trunks.
When the man in the next row trunks to his wife in the midst of a Durance musical comedy and says, "Don't cry dear; it's all play-acting," there must be something wrong with the picture, of at least with its classification. It's would be a delusion...
"Birds hiding amidst twisted foliage, snakes coiled around trunks of trees . . . fern-crooks . . . feathers . . . scarabs . . . naiads swimming . . . knights in full armor. ..."
Where the searing breath of battle had not touched them, luxuriant apple blossoms bloomed along the side streets. Where shells had not amputated the trunks of century-old lindens, there were soft, green leaves, and they fluttered down and stuck like bright greeting cards on the Russian tanks' hot...