Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most self-educated men, Disney pulled himself up from nowhere by grabbing the tail of a runaway idea and hanging on for dear life. Even now, in middle life (he is 54) he seems to most acquaintances a "cheerful monomaniac." He works at least 14 hours a day, never takes a vacation ("I get enough vacation from having a change of troubles")-though he does have a hobby, a miniature train named Lilly Belle (after his wife), and a half-mile of track to run it on. Lacking a formal education-he quit school in the ninth grade-Walt...
...Dear Time-Reader: From time to time, I am questioned by TIME readers about TIME editors-where they came from, where they went to school and what they did before working at TIME. Readers want to know where a national magazine like TIME gets its editors...
From Pullman, Mich.: "Dear Senator: Would you please do our country a big favor and drop dead? McCarthy is an American. What...
...teams, composed of two Tunisians and one Frenchman, would go into the hills to offer amnesty to the fellaghas. Each jellagha who accepted would get a formal certificate of absolution, bearing his thumbprint to prevent chicanery; a stub, also with thumbprint, would be retained by the government. "Go, my dear children," blessed the Bey of Tunis. "May God help you." The emissaries had a deadline: midnight, Dec. 9. The following day. Premier Pierre Mendès-France must defend his plan before the French National Assembly, and success would be the only good defense. Failure would mean the return...
This week, after a few spoonfuls of gruel and a long nap, the Pope broadcast a message "live" over Vatican Radio and the Basilica's loudspeakers. Into the microphone held before his lips he spoke with effort: "To our dear children of beloved Rome, to whom we feel as close in prayer as we are close to the Divine Master in our suffering . . . we impart, with our hearts turned to the Lord and the Immaculate Virgin, our paternal Apostolic benediction...