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Word: cloak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped out of a sleek green and black Rolls-Royce and entered the church to begin the ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Day of Fulfillment | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...efforts in that area have either been completely misunderstood or understood all too well. Syria is convinced rightly or wrongly that the U.S. is supporting counter-revolutionary elements infiltrating the country in the hope of seizing power. If this concept is correct, and America is really engaging in melodramatic cloak-and-dagger activities, it is a sign of an unimaginative diplomacy and an imperialistic attitude. Neither are worthy of our State Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moral Melodrama | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Just out of the Navy after a hitch as a frogman, Jon Lindbergh, 25-year-old son of Charles, signed on for more of the same-as a Navy officer in the cloak-and-flipper film Underwater Warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin to her throne of glory beside Christ, surrounded by angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A MASTERPIECE COME HOME | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Espionage with a Conscience. Cape Canaveral has become one of the world's most important news sources. It is also one of the most frustrating. To pierce a "total security" curtain that is even more tightly drawn than the cloak around the Atomic Energy Commission, missile-beat reporters from California to Canaveral are forced to cultivate what one of that band calls an "espionage system with a conscience." Some reporters estimate that a good 10% of the missile information that is leaked to them would materially aid Soviet missilemen if printed. But the Pentagon's security regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bird Watchers | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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