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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"What is it? Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me? Then what must I do? Commit suicide? That is the situation I am in -your guest. For me the situation is inconceivable. I cannot find words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Elemental Force | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

"I am talking seriously because I have come here with serious intentions, and you try to reduce the matter to simply a joke. It is a question of war or peace between our countries, a question of the life or death of the people."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Elemental Force | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Either-secession, in which some believe they will find independence. France would then leave the Algerians, who had expressed their wish to become separated from it . . . I am convinced personally that such an outcome would be incredible and disastrous. Algeria being what it is at the present time, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DE GAULLE SPEAKS TO ALGERIA: | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

But, for all that, De Gaulle's imaginative proposals for the first time offered the world real reason to hope that the seemingly interminable struggle, which a year ago drove France itself to the verge of civil war, might be almost over. In Washington, Dwight Eisenhower spoke for millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Watershed | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Rounding out their first full week as man and diva, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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