Word: unbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still blind telescope and its lovely setting. Of all the sciences, astronomy is in many respects the pleasantest. There are no dead animals (as in biology) or horrible smells (as in chemistry). Astronomers work on clear-aired mountaintops with clean and beautiful instruments. Their experimental material-light-filters down unbidden out of the cold, dark...
...nation's moral position was clear. Even as Molotov in Paris raised the familiar cry of U.S. interference, George Marshall flung the charge back. The U.S. had already sent Europe some $9 billion in food and goods since the war's end; the U.S. had demobilized, unbidden, the greatest military power the world had ever seen...