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Word: ember (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of Trieste, a grey ember caught in the crosswinds of national desire, brightened to an ugly red glow last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Glowing Ember | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya, the Land of the Shining Mountain, has become a smoldering ember in Africa. And the surrounding brush vast, white-run, black-populated, miles of it, is tinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF MURDER & MUDDLE: A Report from Kenya | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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