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Word: confidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only three days before the Mossadegh government fell, Richardson had been in Teheran, talking with important political figures. All assured him things were now quiet in Iran, says Richardson, "including Mossadegh himself, who sat up in bed looking chipper and confident." Richardson flew to Jerusalem to check a report (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Back home in Whittier last week, the folks were confident. Said Frank Nixon: "With Eisenhower and him together, they'll make things snap. They'll win-I don't care if he is my boy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fighting Quaker | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Other festival cities this year, notably Bayreuth and Munich, bid high for top-notch soloists. Salzburg, apparently confident that the Vienna Opera was the world's best, simply transplanted it for the festival season, and booked only two big outside stars: the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone George London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss's Last Premiere | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

In Los Angeles last week, another memory patient was traveling an even more difficult road. Melvin Eugene Hewitt, 28, injured in a barroom brawl last year, was saved by a quick-thinking doctor who massaged Hewitt's "still" heart for 15 minutes. But he may never recover from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Ring for Carolyn | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

All men suffer such humiliations. But it is insecurely successful men like Hugh Walpole-craving dignity as others crave alcohol-who not only suffer most from them but seem always to invite them. Walpole, it might be supposed, had every reason to be cocky and self-confident. He belonged to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Egoist | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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