Hiroshima

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her role seemed to be ambiguous

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Father Kleinsorge's apparently negligible but unhealed cuts

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Her ... thigh was atrophied by the deep incisions Dr. Sasaki had made.

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In dealing with the keloids, Dr. Sasaki and his colleagues were groping in the dark, because they had no reliable literature to guide them.

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Seeing fire breaking out in a nearby ruin (except at the very center where the bomb itself ignited some fires, most of Hiroshima's city-wide conflagration was caused by inflammable wreckage falling on cook-stoves and live wires.)

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At fifty he was healthy, convivial, and calm, and he was pleased to pass the evenings drinking whisky with friends, always sensibly and for the sake of conversation.

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many people began to harbor parasites, which were not fatal in themselves but were seriously debilitating to those who had had radiation sickness.

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over the years it turned out ... that that most efficacious medicine for whatever ailed him would be cash or credit, the larger the dosage the better.

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Two years earlier, a Quaker professor ... driven, apparently, by deep urges for expiation and reconciliation, had come to Hiroshima, assembled a team of carpenters, and, with his own hands and theirs, begun building a series of Japanese-style houses for victims of the bomb;

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being prosperous, hedonistic, and at the time not too busy, had been allowing himself the luxury of sleeping until nine or nine-thirty, but fortunately he had to get up early the morning the bomb was dropped to see a house guest off on a train.

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A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb.

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Hiroshima seemed more and more inevitably a target,

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his study was on the second floor, lined with bound books, which Shigeyuki eventually found to be volume after volume of meticulous copies he had made in medical school of course notes by a classmate named Iwamoto, who was brighter than he;

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...a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies...

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Her leg became discoloured, swollen, and putrid.

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This home was redolent of new wood and clean matting.

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He sat there, torpid, sweating, and tongue-tied, as, after the manner of the famous program, his life was sketchily reviewed.

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these quarrels reached the zenith of absurdity when...