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Word: counte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian. Rebutted Miss Sweden: "I was elected Miss China in 1941 at Stockholm's biggest vaudeville house, which is named 'China.' " But the judges disqualified Miss Sweden anyway-on count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Round Like a Goblet | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...COUNT ARNOUL DE BRIEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...double veto has elements of the supernatural. It begins when Russia vetoes a resolution on which, in the opinion of the majority, the veto does not apply. This forces the Council to take a vote on whether the veto applies or not. On this vote, however, the veto does count and therefore all debate is automatically ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Double Whammy | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...still searching last week for some way to end the conflict. Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte was named as a mediator between Jews and Arabs. The U.S. pressed for a Security Council resolution that would recognize a "threat to the peace and breach of the peace" in Palestine, and pave the way for sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: On the Move | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Princess Margaret got the measles. The royal physician did a hasty finger-count, assured the world that she had had no contact, during the infectious period, with her sister Princess Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Formative Years | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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