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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Our country has been unjustly described as one pursuing only materialistic goals; as building a culture whose hallmarks are gadgets and shallow pleasures; as prizing wealth above ideals, machines above spirit, leisure above learning, and war above peace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PEACE & FRIENDSHIP-IN FREEDOM | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Gates, who has been Deputy Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: First Team Going In | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The swank Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Brass Island | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

"A Primary Need." But the President's air of finality just fanned the sparks. Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Birth-Control Issue | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

¶Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck, who has been busy on the West Coast and elsewhere promoting Charlie Halleck as the G.O.P.'s most promising vice-presidential bet, suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Straws in the Wind | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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