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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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These origins are enacted in 13 major scenes by 325 volunteer actors. Scene I shows Jesus telling of his "other sheep," the Mormons. In 600 B.C., they believe, a prophet called Lehi was told by God to leave Jerusalem. He took his family to the American continent. Here the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pageant of the Tablets | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Girding itself in nuclear armor, the U.S. has devised such costly weapons as supersonic aircraft, attack and defense missiles, continent-wide radar-warning screens and atomic submarines. But it lags in a weapon that the Rockefeller Report last January warned would become "an increasingly important deterrent," i.e., fallout shelters in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Modest Beginning | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

"Look at him, the white liberator of Africa," cracked an aide as Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroo-mah) poked his lathered dusky face out of a Blair House bathroom. Laughing lustily, the irrepressible Prime Minister of Ghana (pop. 4,800,000) finished his shave, draped on one of his $300...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Pride of Africa | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Long Wet Summer | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

"Thus the Soviets would strive to achieve at least a favorable 'draw' by occupying the Eurasian continent, and exploiting such resources as might still be available to restore some of the Soviet Union's losses. The shrunken and devastated Free World would be entirely relegated to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT THE RUSSIAN GENERALS THINK: Reds See Victory | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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