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Word: aps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even 'Cliffies will be welcomed this evening at 7:30 p.m. when the CRIMSON hosts its first lavish candidate meeting. Absorbing free beer to the rhythm of the AP tickertape, all those interested may talk to the editors, inspect the paper's independent printing facilities, and if they like, start competing for the Fourth Estate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON Competition Opens Tonight at 14 Plympton | 10/7/1959 | See Source »

...glowing version of Castro's moves clacked out to other Latin American capitals over the teletypes of Prensa Latina, a new wire service that set up shop in Havana last month after Castro argued that "the international news mo nopolies [i.e., AP and UPI] soy lies and calum nies to weaken our revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Strongman Speaks | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...soldier in Cambodia was Dap Chhuon (pronounced Chew-on). As a reward for his brilliant rise from French army corporal-dap means corporal-to guerrilla leader, against first the French and then the Communist Viet Minh, Dap Chhuon had been named Royal Delegate and Governor of the Siemréap area, which includes the renowned ruins of the lost 12th century Khmer civilization of Angkor Wat. Slim, natty Dap Chhuon made Siemréap his personal fief with three battalions of Cambodia's 31,000-man army under his personal command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Sour Note | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Recently Communist informers reported to Sihanouk that Dap Chhuon planned, with help from Thailand, to assassinate the Premier, overthrow the monarchy and establish an anti-Communist republic. Sihanouk dispatched a battalion to Siemréap with orders to get Dap Chhuon, dead or alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Sour Note | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Message to Ike. Pictures of Dap Chhuon's bleeding body were posted in triumph on the trees lining Pnompenh's avenues, and Sihanouk flew a delegation of foreign diplomats into Siemréap to show them the "proof" of a plot-two captured Vietnamese radio operators, $4,000,000 worth of gold, and a purported message to Cambodian exiles in Thailand asking the strength of their forces. Brushing aside the denials from Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk thanked the Communists for tipping him off, and then turned on a "certain leading power" that furnishes arms to both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Sour Note | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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