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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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IN the Pentagon office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, on the ornate library table once owned by William Tecumseh Sherman, perches a model of the Oozlefinch Bird, a wondrous creature indeed. This week, as the Congress returns to a Washington torn between the costly requirements of national defense and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Only a month earlier, No. 1 Communist Nikita Khrushchev, in an interview with a Brazilian Communist newspaperman, had plugged for a booming trade that would exchange Brazil's coffee, cocoa, hides, sugar and cotton for such manufactured goods as "oil-well-drilling equipment and automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Friendly Russians | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

As the new West Indies nation moves toward next March's election of a federal legislature and formation of its first government, the eleven main islands are gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST INDIES: Cabinet for Barbados | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

The thinly fictionalized, essentially documentary book tells, in the words of Defense Attorney Paul Biegler, of the investigation and trial that follow. Biegler gets a series of rude shocks: luscious Laura's husband has a nasty disposition and a tendency to attack any man who admires his wife. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Scattered Returns. In Columbus, Ohio, Chief George W. Scholer announced that there would be a second voting for officers of the Police Athletic Association after the first election revealed that 295 voters had cast 365 ballots.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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