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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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I am not at all unhappy about being a "compensation," and I suppose I don't mind being a "sort of Ivy League Dracula" [in the Oct. 19 review of Pillow Talk]. I can smell a compliment better than anyone I have ever met. No, all I really have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

TV quiz-fix scandals (see SHOW BUSINESS). "I am one of those that never saw [quiz shows] ... If it was done, it's a terrible thing to do to the American public." The President added that while the Executive Department cannot legally take any action ("censorship"), he had asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pressing the Summit | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Asked the same old presidential question after lunch, he grinned engagingly and gave quite a different answer: "I am not a candidate for the presidency, but I appreciate your asking. I get to feel neglected."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: New Man's First Week | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Of course, it is not democracy. Critics think Ayub is moving too slowly at reforming Pakistan's legal system and devising a constitution (answers Ayub: "I am not one of those clever chaps. I like to know exactly what I am doing before I do it"). He agrees that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Benign Year | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

After informing a rapt audience that "I am the first honest man Mr. Khrushchev has ever met," Britain's ripsnorting Field Marshal Lord Montgomery announced that he will undertake a new, one-man peace mission in January. His new quarry: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Monty'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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