Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...separation of Church & State ... is simply false . . . Cardinal Gibbons set the tone for the American Catholics in an article he wrote ... in 1909 . . . 'American Catholics,' he said, 'rejoice in our separation of Church & State and I can conceive no combination of circumstances will arise which would make a union desirable for either Church or State...
...sticks out at the elbows. He has a genial gregariousness that enables him to first-name thousands of people; he rarely forgets a face. His memory is so photographic that he sometimes startles' his secretary by recalling verbatim a letter dictated years before. Before he lets a staffer make a sales presentation to a prospective client, Duffy insists that he bone up on every pertinent fact of the client's business...
Both uranium and hydrogen bombs will leave some radioactive residues. If a uranium bomb is exploded near the ground (as the first one at Alamogordo), the "fission products" make a small area radioactive for a long time. But most of the fission products rise high in the atmosphere. When the bomb is exploded 1,80b ft. above the ground (as at Hiroshima), virtually all the fission products are carried up, where they do no damage...
Author Hersey makes a point of his editorial integrity in letting his character Noach have his own say in his own way, but an editor really on the job would have cut the story by a third or quarter to make it that much more direct and that much more moving. As it stands, gabby Noach. too introspective to give a clear account of action, and too intellectual to understand the urgent, passionate movements of the human heart, bores the reader into indifference. An effective criticism of the book and evidence of one character's sound common sense appears...
...course going to leave him like this," says the thrilled little hero of An Ideal Craftsman on finding an old man's strangled body in a closet. "Why . . . it's as easy as A B C," he assures the trembling murderer. "You get a rope and make a noose, and you put it . . . round his neck . . . And then you hang him up on a nail or something. He mustn't touch the ground, of course . . . They'll say he hanged himself, don't you see?" And in two ticks the corpse is dangling from...