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Word: careful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists' daringly successful "3rd Independent Force" during the Japanese occupation, after the war turned the regiment against the British. By 1953, he had only one superior among the Communists of the south-a terrorist named Ah Kuk, and known as "Shorty." Shorty's own bodyguards soon took care of that. Learning that there was $66,000 on their master's head, they decided to deliver that head-minus the body-to the police. After that, Hor Lung was in complete command of scores of villages in Johore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: How to Catch a Terrorist | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed themselves defenders of the people. They don't care about the 15,000 modest workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Wayward Busnappers | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...people know or care that Witnesses are not Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

After House Republicans recently blocked a Democratic farm bill that called for high supports on corn, cotton and rice, Speaker Sam Rayburn angrily announced that no farm legislation would be forthcoming this session. Growled he: "We have been up and down this hill as many times as I care to go." But last week Mr. Sam was up the hill again, pushed there by political pressure from Southern planters, who knew that congressional failure to pass a farm bill would mean automatic cutbacks in next year's acreage allotments. The House, following Mr. Sam to the hilltop, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rush Hour | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Deke" Parsons special care during those five hours was a mechanical marvel nicknamed "Little Boy." A vaguely cylindrical device, it measured 129 in. long, 31½ in. in diameter, weighed 9,700 Ibs. Four antennas bristled from its tail; its tungsten-steel nose glistened; on its grey flanks were scrawled obscene greetings to Emperor Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Fateful Hours | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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