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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spokesman for the group was New York's Democratic Congressman Joseph L. Pfeifer, a Brooklyn surgeon. When an impatient Spanish reporter in Madrid asked when the U.S. was going to stop talking and start doing something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Order Is Wrong | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Burke, who introduced the approved resolution, said that his chief desire is that everyone who wishes to vote has the chance.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Might Restudy Club Bias Decision | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Sir Laurence Olivier, arriving in New York to make his television debut, was saddened because many people in England had misinterpreted the role of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, currently being played in London by his wife, Vivien Leigh. The character is not a prostitute, Sir Laurence explained patiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Restless Foot | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

A few weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

What we have to do is to recognize the universal desire for peace among people as distinguished from their governments. We have to find some way to make this desire an effective force in maintaining peace. Our billions upon billions of expenditures on defense are wasted and meaningless if they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senator Flanders Discusses War, Peace in Godkin Finale | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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