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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party in Turkey's first honest elections two weeks ago. But this week when the new National Assembly met for the first time, its strong Democratic majority overruled 67-year-old Celal Bayar and elected him President. Bayar, an advocate of less government interference with business, chose as Premier Adnan Menderes, a wealthy landowner of Aydin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Reluctant President | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Both of Bobby's parents volunteered as donors. After tests for blood type and other factors, the doctors chose his father, Sidney Lawrence, a healthy man of 40. All the signs were favorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Father & Son | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty. As politicians, almost all of them still believed that damning the boche was the cheapest way of getting votes in France. A week before, they had instructed Schuman to stall on the whole issue. But now Schuman said: "J'ai quelque chose ici" . .[I have something here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: I Have Something Here | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Gradually, with considerable prodding from visiting U.S. labor organizers ("When are you guys gonna get together?") the CGIL secessionists moved toward a new, free federation. Last February in Naples, Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republican trade unionists agreed to merge, chose as secretary general a Christian Democrat veteran: paunchy, plodding Giulio Pastore, 47, who has an unimpeachable record as an antiFascist. Last week in Rome, the new CISL was formally launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: CISL | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...easy recipe for cooking up a song. Several years ago he began filling notebooks with catch phrases, slang and cliches ("Cliches make the best songs; I put down every one I can find"). Last April, with three notebooks full, he went to Veteran Songwriter Al (Mairzy Doats) Hoffman, who chose Baked a Cake as the most promising title, helped Merrill whip up the words & music in a couple of hours. The lyrics asked very little of the U.S. mind. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bakery Specials | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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