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Word: deadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medical officers, I can vouch for the undying bravery of every Marauder in Burma. In a conversation with the late General Merrill, the former commander of the Japanese forces opposing him in Burma stated that the Japanese so respected the Marauders that they decorated the graves of the American dead with flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns to China. The colonial service does its best to take care of them all, but in almost every fortnightly health report, the government finds it necessary to report: "Dumped bodies, 18 . . . 22 ... 25," in reference to humans found dead in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Main Door to Communist China: A remarkably unfrightened place | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...first love. In fact, I won't do any serious thinking about TV until I've finished the play I'm working on now-a contemporary tragedy. I imagine my first TV offering will be a rewrite of one of my old plays, perhaps Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Promised Land | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...proud. "My driver was killed by one of them and it was my duty to bring to justice the people who murdered him," he says softly. "As a result, one frightened, pathetic young Cypriot was killed. It is tragic. The Cypriots now are acclaiming the dead man as their hero, and the British press is acclaiming me as theirs. You may think I am talking like a grandmother, but there is far too much hatred here. There is al ready too much death, pain and tears in Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Too Much Death | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...will be re-elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck. New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman also will never be anything more than a guest in the White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time, but should have checked his big move until 1960. In that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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