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Word: camped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulwarked on the speakers' platform by an ex-missionary who had spent 50 months in a Red Chinese prison camp, Muggeridge asked his Manchester audience: "Will an amiable chap in Downing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Getting Set for B. & K. | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Jordan is a country that has little or no excuse for existence. A chunk torn from the desert, with boundaries traced on sand, it has no geographical unity, national identity, political history or economic viability. It was created by the British for the British: an armed camp at the crossroads of the world, a watchtower in the center of oil lands they ruled in all but fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Boy King | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...hills of the Holy Land to the west, minutes later swooped down to a neat landing in Jerusalem. There he dashed off to confer for two hours with young (34), mustachioed Lieut. Colonel Abu Nawar, his favorite military adviser of the moment, then stopped off briefly at a Legion camp to tell clustering legionnaires: "Work together, observe discipline, and we shall have happiness, Allah willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Boy King | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...spare not yours." In recent months, following some 40 protests by France, Nasser has toned down the broadcasts to French North Africa. But now Nasser wanted to know: Why is France sending jets to Israel? Nasser assured Pineau: "No commando destined for Algeria has been trained in an Egyptian camp during the past several months." Said Pineau wanly: "A very interesting assurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Brother | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Supplementary Income. To supplement his union salary ($21,000 a year), Hoffa has at various times held interests in a brewery, a trotting track, a summer camp, oil leases and (through his wife) a truck leasing company called Test Fleet, Inc. (Test Fleet, unsurprisingly, enjoyed excellent labor relations, and in four years paid dividends of more than $60,000 on an original investment of $4,000.) Between his professional and personal activities, Hoffa has run afoul of the law more times than he or anyone else can remember. Says he: "I got a list of arrests maybe as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Leave It to Jimmy | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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