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...bomb went off with a deafening, almost smokeless, explosion at 10:20 p.m. The front of the house was reduced to sagging debris in a split second. Moore's wife rose, wounded, dazed and screaming, amid a tangle of dust-clouded wreckage. But Moore lay motionless. He bled gently from the mouth and died just after his terrified friends got him to a hospital...
...whose fanatical state of mind he had helped to create. They would rather see their own nations fall apart than continue their present relations with the West. Communism encouraged this state of mind, and stood to profit hugely from it. But Communism did not create it. The split between the West and the non-Communist East was a peril all its own to world order, quite apart from Communism. Through 1951 the Communist threat to the world continued; but nothing new was added-and little subtracted. The news of 1951 was this other danger in the Near and Middle East...
After an agonizing debate, the family decided to split, leaving Olga behind to try to make her way as a dressmaker. But the Sokolowskis' sponsors, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, opposes splitting families, and would not undertake Olga's guardianship...
...University (TIME, July 11, 1949) was a bold attempt to restore a sense of unity to higher education by restoring its sense of Christian purpose. Last week Britons were grappling with Sir Walter's latest work (Responsibility; Oxford University Press) -an equally bold attempt to heal the split in society's sense of moral judgment...
...filled it with fire-extinguishing fluid (carbon tetrachloride) and placed a small explosive charge inside. This "bomb" and a small pressure-sensitive switch to set it off were put in a fuel tank. Then the tank's dangerous vapors were ignited by an electric spark. In the first split second, the expanding pressure wave tripped the switch. The "bomb" burst, sprayed its contents into the tank and snuffed out the newborn explosion...