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Word: diese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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... I am a Detroit tool and die maker, and as such have built dies and fixtures for various new military developments. No one asked me to pass moral judgment on these projects. They handed me the blueprints, they ordered the steel, and told me to make a delivery date . . . Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Re-election Problems. Bill Jenner was in rare form. He quoted John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke and Martin Dies. He roared in a voice obviously intended to be heard all the way back in Indiana. He stomped his pointed shoes. He held out his hands and quivered his fingertips. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

While Archibald's play fails this goal, a gifted actress as Isabel might have attained it. Unfortunately, Jennifer Jones has at this point so little control over the role that she seems to leave it unattended on the stage. In the first act, when Isabel must prove worthy of interest...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Portrait of a Lady | 11/16/1954 | See Source »

To make the changes he wants, Curtice can also find corner-cutting tricks. When he first saw sketches of a Buick that carried the fender line back into the body for the first time, he did not wait for the year-long process of changing dies. Instead, he devised a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, by Pierre Boulle (224 pp.; Vanguard; $3), is a superb, ironical study of a minor British Don Quixote who insists on fighting for code and country-even though it is yesterday's code of yesterday's officers and gentlemen. When Colonel Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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