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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsomely mounted on a white horse, India's Prime Minister Nehru last week cantered up a road in the hill resort of Mussoorie. Looking as fit as a much younger man and wearing a red rose in his buttonhole, 69-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Adventurous Life | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Bathroom Rafter. The court had ordered Amiel to pay 3,000,000 francs' ($6,113) damages to the Rollands, and Mme. Amiel prepared to sell their new house to raise the money, proudly refused financial help from her husband's fellow teachers. Several days after the court had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why? Why? | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

"Hey, you," cried the Dutchman when he saw Sooi, "have you got a license to import those pigs?" Retorted Sooi: "I am on Belgian soil-Hertog soil." It soon turned out that in a way he was right: in their treaty of 1843 Holland and Belgium had decided that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOW COUNTRIES: Land Without a Country | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Sooi, the man who started it all, claimed this as a great victory. "I am fighting for an idealistic case," he declared. "Everybody says that I make a lot of money. Anybody who says that to my face will find my bloodhounds after him." But what if the International Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOW COUNTRIES: Land Without a Country | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

He was equally blithe about rumors of assassination plots, some spread by his own aides. Police picked up one crackpot who had planned to toss a pipe bomb ("just for kicks") into a Castro rally in Central Park. "I sleep well and don't worry," said Castro. "I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Humanist Abroad | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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