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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Troubled Shrine | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

"We have to stop asking, is a man an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, or a Jew? We have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Courage to Love | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Of Melissa's 6,000 people, 1,840 are unemployed. The peasants live in filthy hillside hovels, ten and twelve to a room. Between them, 6,000 people hold 7,400 acres of hard, rocky land, which means an average of little more than an acre for each-barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

A few weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The horrified middle-aged women sat and watched 91 murders, seven holdups, three kidnapings, ten thefts, four burglaries, two cases of arson, two jailbreaks, two suicides, a homicidal explosion, one blackmail and assorted cases of assault & battery and attempted murder. All of this violence, reported Mrs. Clara Logan, president of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Case Against Crime | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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