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Word: boiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twin brother Nicky arrives. Nicky is handsome, hypnotic and unregenerate, a nostalgic Nazi still capable of strutting his party uniform in the midst of the Berlin airlift. As Nicky stuffs the children's ears with bogus war exploits, the camp's tensions come to a seething boil, and the novel spills over into melodrama, j murder and suicide. Novelist Vansittart, 36, is an English teacher in a London I school; his compassion and scrupulosity in distinguishing good from bad Germans are in generous contrast to the views of his late uncle, Lord Vansittart, whose implacable antipathy could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...race, which starts at 6 p.m., includes five crews: Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, B.U., and M.I.T. They are contending for the Compton Cup, won last year by the Tigers. While there is a chance that one of the latter three crews may pose a threat, the race should boil down to a two-boat affair between Princeton and the Crimson...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Tigers Pose Threat to Oarsmen In Compton Cup Race Tomorrow | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

Nasser's chief rival in the Arab world. What did the program boil down to, a questioner asked: Was it socialism, state capitalism, or what? The official smiled. "We have a good word in Arabic. It is eimar. It means when you finish a house or complete some worthwhile thing, it has a quality of progress. We call our program eimar." Resting overnight in his summer palace at Sarsange, shy, Harrow-educated Feisal found eimar's reception encouraging: "The people seem to feel that we are doing something important for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: A Quality of Progress | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...with the highest percentage (45%) of Negro population in the U.S. To win time, J. P. Coleman has set himself as the wedge between White Citizens' Councils and the N.A.A.C.P. "What we need." says Coleman, "is peace and quiet. What happened in Clinton, Tenn. will be like a boil on the side of Mount Everest compared to what could happen in Mississippi." Coleman's strategy-difficult to understand in the North, but bold for the Deep South-is to work for racial peace and quiet. Unlike many of his political predecessors, he refuses to exploit segregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: The Six-Foot Wedge | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...profits are being cut by the Suez crisis, every American taxpayer ought to boycott the Internal Revenue Service. The injustice of this non-Christian King in all his splendor coming to this Christian country and asking us poor, hard-working American taxpayers for economic aid makes my blood boil! Let him cut down his standard of living so it matches ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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