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Word: break (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of depending on NATO and such alliances for their protection." But he ordered his diplomats to break off disarmament talks at the U.N. and rejected the new overtures made by the NATO leaders at the Paris meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Up From the Plenum | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...ghetto'' on Sunday has been crowded with rewarding shows, too frequently elbowing one another out of the viewer's sight. CBS's The Twentieth Century is a gilt-edged newcomer, and on NBC, Omnibus has dropped the apron strings of the Ford Foundation without a break in its stride. After a slow start, The Seven Lively Arts gave the season its liveliest artistic success and costliest flop ($1,250,000), in the absence of sponsors, and taught its uncomfortable host, TV Critic John Crosby, that where criticism is concerned, it is more blessed to give than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Year of the Horse | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...First to Break. To a second group of students Drs. Bliss and Clark gave minute doses of LSD-25, a drug known to produce schizophrenia-like symptoms. When the subjects were rested, it had no effect; after 48 sleepless hours, the same dose brought on severe hallucinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangers of Sleeplessness | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

South Viet Nam. Dynamic President Diem has created a stable regime, emerged as one of the East's strongest statesmen. Though Saigon's recent bombings show that Communists can still break the peace, Diem has the threat to internal security under control. With an annual per capita income of $144, Viet Nam trails only Japan, Malaya and the Philippines in the area. Diem has built 1,000 miles of roads, reclaimed thousands of acres of rice land, and opened two universities and a technical school this year. U.S. aid ($250 million this year) keeps his army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: Signs of Progress | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...immediate, here-and-now quality; all over Europe new churches are going up that are inspired by this immediacy of religious faith. Their builders, like modern U.S. church architects (TIME, Sept. 19, 1955). were influenced partly by the materials available, but even more by the desire to break with a tradition-heavy past. These churches, photographed on a tour of Europe in 1957 by U.S. Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, are designed in the belief that Christians at worship want to breathe the air of the present. Not all of the churches please all worshipers. But, says Kidder Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: EUROPE'S NEW CHURCHES | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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