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Word: dones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next morning's explosive headlines had grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning the Flank | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...campaign to tell New York's 16,000,000 citizens about fallout dangers and what can be done about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: Against the Silent Killer | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...urge to turn back the clock is as strong among revolutionaries as reactionaries. Saddled wih the chaos and corruption of 14 years of freedom, many Indonesians yearn for the good old days of 1945, when life was violent but simple and all that had to be done was win independence from the Dutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Good Old Days | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...only won its independence from Britain after World War II. but chose to leave the Commonwealth-was the most insistent on preserving its neutralist status. From 1953 on, Burma would not even accept free technical aid from the U.S., partly because it did not think the U.S. had done enough to make Nationalist China pull its guerrilla armies out of the Burma hills (they finally pulled the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: The Road to Mandalay | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Minister Nehru, 69, said he could appreciate the Dalai Lama's predicament ("He is a young man, 25 years old," who "feels strongly"), but Nehru was not prepared to do more than "sympathize with his feelings very much." Was it Nehru's position that nothing could be done for Tibet or the Tibetans? Snapped Nehru irritably: "I have not reconciled myself to that position or a hundred or a thousand other positions, but I do not pretend to have the authority or power to change the shape of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Unwelcome Guest | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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