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Word: confidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Democratic Party stands in Chicago as a slightly aging Robin Hood with a paunch and a double chin, still bold and confident, but worried about the changing facts of life in Sherwood Forest.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Robin Hood & Arithmetic | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Dwight Eisenhower watched the balloting on his TV set in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel. He was surrounded by advisers-his four brothers, Paul Hoffman, Senator Frank Carlson, Herbert Brownell. Ike was confident of victory, but he nervously fingered two good-luck coins (a Boy Scout coin and'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Meeting | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Professor Lloyd finds no such repressions hampering American speech. "The ordinary American is in conversation a confident, competent expressive being . . . But with the negative attitude that attends all our writing, those whose main interest lies elsewhere are inhibited . . . until the sight of a blank white page gives them the shakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Blank White Page | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

As a compromise, it was not much, but to Rhee's exhausted opponents, despairing of any help from the U.S. or other tongue-clicking powers, it looked better than nothing. Released from jail and routed out of their hiding places by Rhee's policemen, they meekly joined his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The People's Choice | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

The rush at the stores last week made margarine-makers confident that U.S. consumption will grow faster than ever. Since 1935, butter consumption has fallen from 17.1 Ibs. per person to 9.7 last year, while margarine consumption has climbed from 2.4 Ibs. per person to 6.6 Ibs., and is increasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Operation Oleo | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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