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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endlessly he defended "provincial autonomy." But Duplessis' continuing squabble with Canada's federal government over tax apportionment, his refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Le Chef Is Dead | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Determined, like her cousin Queen Elizabeth to bind the British commonwealth by charm, blue-eyed Princess Alexandra, 22, made her first official visit without her mother, the Duchess of Kent, to an overseas dominion-Australia. After spending three weeks trudging up and down the continent, she demonstrated her famed light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

As the new governments move into the cool, white villas the colonial officials left behind, the continent is clearly slated for a series of strongman governments. No more pointed advice exists for the African politician than the pseudo-Biblical com mandment inscribed at the bottom of Kwame Nkrumah's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The answer to this was supplied by the influential Manchester Guardian. "The Express' circulation," said the Guardian, "is something which thoughtful Frenchmen are not prepared to shrug off." Fact is that, although Fleet Street may exaggerate popular emotions, it has a good nose for what they are. No one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shrillness in Fleet Street | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The tenuous plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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