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Word: 50th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm, however, saying ``There is no alternative.'' Some Cabinet members talked of erecting a fence, policed by border guards and dogs, that would keep West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel. A Pilgrimage to Auschwitz Jews from all over the world journeyed to Poland to attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazis' most infamous death-camp complex. The solemn occasion was marred by bitter disagreements between Jewish groups and the Polish government over the degree of Jewish participation in the anniversary program. U.S.-Vietnam Ties Washington and Hanoi inched closer to establishing full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 22-28 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...play is memory," declares the narrator of The Glass Menagerie. In the poignant, powerful 50th-anniversary revival that has just begun a limited run on Broadway, the memory in question is clearly that of Tennessee Williams. A large photograph of the playwright looms over the set that confronts the arriving audience. Cigarette holder in hand, he contemplates a written page. After the houselights dim, a young man comes on stage and begins to type. The projection changes to a blank piece of paper. The young man lights a cigarette, then addresses the audience, his wry drawl and courtliness gently recalling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: One Small, Unhappy Family | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...home-school advocates counter that a teacher's certificate is no guarantee of success. They cite study after study showing that home-schooled children excel on standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Home Sweet School | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...Crimson took on 50th-ranked Virginia Commonwealth Friday, dominating them in a 4-0 victory...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: W. Tennis Falters, Loses to Tribe, 4-0 | 10/18/1994 | See Source »

...thought of the Japanese schoolboy in recent months as Washington's Smithsonian Institution shuffled through one script after another, trying to figure out how to deal with Hiroshima in a 50th-anniversary exhibition about the end of the war and the dawn of the nuclear era. Around the Smithsonian, the task brought on profound moral discomfort -- historiographical hives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiroshima and the Time Machine | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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