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Word: crushed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wing Combat answered by attacking the U.S.: "I would say the stock of the U.S. has never fallen lower, whereas that of France is rising visibly . . . I would say that if Germany has really become so soon a confidential partner, one should not have been so stupid as to crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Report on France | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Mohammed Ali developed his unabashed crush on America while serving as his country's ambassador (1952-53). He picked up U.S. slang, went often to watch the Washington Senators, took to bowling with his embassy staff. He drove around most of the 48 states with his pretty wife and two teen-age sons, collecting American gadgets, idiom and ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Friend from the East | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Conferred with Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on ways to use the new anti-subversive legislation to crush the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Word to the Wives | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Troubles crush me to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINESE POETRY SAMPLER: TOWN LIFE | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...toughest cop, José Bernabé Linares, 51. As most Guatemalans know, when Linares last ran the secret police under the late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with the enemy forces but to erase them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Command Decisions | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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