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Word: dec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Kitten on the Keys | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...East Cominform. "An unpleasant shape of things to come in Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Wiesbaden last week, kindly, silver-haired Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Republic, delivered a remarkable speech. It was the speech of a democrat and a Christian; it was also an item of evidence that, in the words of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (TIME, Dec. 5), much that is decent has survived in Germany. Said President Heuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Courage to Love | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, Dec. 18--Harvard almost won that big Ivy League victory here tonight, but unfortunately for Coach John Chase's skaters, history repeated itself. At 4:45 of a violent sudden-death overtime period, Warren Priestley scored the winning goal for Brown that whipped the previously-undefeated Crimson...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Basketball Team Wins; Sextet Bows to Brown | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue, produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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