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Word: alls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of some 40 British-made cars, all but half a dozen are technically capable of speeds over 75 m.p.h. But while British owners bandy maximum speeds, r.p.m.s and acceleration rates as expertly as if auto racing were the nation's favorite blood sport, they seldom, if ever, get to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: M-l for Murder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

It was enough to challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: M-l for Murder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

For the first time in a decade, French Communist papers, instead of referring to De Gaulle brusquely by surname alone, prefaced it respectfully with the title "General." But this was not all. Abandoning a longtime boycott on social affairs attended by De Gaulle, eight Communist Deputies showed up at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On Good Behavior | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Drop That Name | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Like a specialist called in to diagnose a serious infection but not permitted to bring all his instruments along, the U.N. observer team sent in September to Laos to investigate charges of Communist Viet Nam aggression was hamstrung by explicit instructions to simply look and listen. Otherwise, U.S. Ambassador Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Report from Laos | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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