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Word: eruptions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest to many only as someone who is so disgusting that there is a fascination in waiting for the next blunder that will erupt from the irascible Mr. Paar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...majored in international relations at Harvard. During his junior year Jack went to Europe under the auspices of Ambassador Joe Kennedy, and in Berlin one night in 1939, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Alex Kirk gave him a message to take to his father: world war would erupt within a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Erupting Volcano. Last week Erhard was deep in his newest battle against rising prices, brought on when the big Ruhr coal operators announced a sudden $1.20-$1.50-a-ton price rise only four days after the elections. To the coal operators' pleas that their prices were still the lowest in Europe, Erhard roared: "You have made a volcano erupt. The administration is disturbed, the government is wounded." To unionists seeking concomitant wage rises and benefits, Erhard insisted he would succeed in keeping prices down: "If you look into it, you will find that your real income is now higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols ("The Negroes were gonna fill them with acid and shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Case No. 3113 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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