Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obliging History. The second cold finality of the week was the partition of Germany. Molotov made it plain that the Communists would not risk free elections throughout Germany, knowing they would lose. Even if West Germany were to leave NATO, the Russians would not be satisfied: the only kind of unification they could tolerate would be a united Communist Germany. This was said with the usual Communist implication that history is on their side, and they have only to wait. Perhaps the Kremlin's leaders believe that history will so oblige them; but other explanations are possible. Their decision...
...pleaded with Moscow to let the Germans decide for themselves; Molotov would have none of that. The Soviet Union, he said without a trace of embarrassment, could not stand idly by and watch free elections "lead to the infringement of the interests of the working masses." Molotov then made plain what the West had long suspected: that the Kremlin intends to partition Germany indefinitely. "There are two Germanys, he said, and only one of them-the Communist East-is the "real Fatherland...
...oust the "clerical Fascists" in his Cabinet. Giving in, he fired Bengoa and Goyeneche. But the liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...
Boston has the glory of having given in 1636 the first college or university to the New World. It is located on an extensive plain, four miles from Boston, at a place called Cambridge. The imagination could not fix on a place that could better unite all the conditions essential to a seat of education, sufficiently near to Boston to enjoy all the advantages of communication with Europe and the rest of the world, and yet sufficiently distant not to expose the students to the contagion of licentious manners common in commercial towns...
...Stars. Drs. Greenstein and Fowler, backed by a group of British cosmologists, believe that the universe was formed gradually out of a cloud of plain hydrogen over billions of years. Old stars that condensed first from the cosmic cloud were made entirely of hydrogen; there was nothing else to be made of. As nuclear reactions took place inside them, they turned partly into helium by fusion processes similar to those that generate the energy of hydrogen bombs. They also cooked up middleweight elements such as carbon and oxygen...