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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Massive Resistance. Working with legislative advisory commissions, new Governor Hodges sent to Chapel Hill for a bright young lawyer to spend full time on the complex school crisis. Result: clear understanding that the court had not ordered immediate mass integration, as many a Southerner feared, or left the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: The South's New Leader | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

To alert villages ahead of them to prepare horses, yaks, porters and guides, the Dalai Lama depended on Tibet's famed arrow message service, a primitive but effective system under which messages tied to arrows are shot across rivers and deep ravines along key routes. Arrow messages, couriers on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: God-King in Exile | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

On the day of his arrival at Foothills, the Dalai Lama demolished this feeble Red legend. At the tea planters' town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: God-King in Exile | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

The habit of bundling up a feverish child in flannel pajamas under heavy blankets in an overheated room to make him "sweat it out" is also bad, Dr. Done suggests. It makes no sense when anti-fever drugs are being given, because their effect is to promote heat loss-which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Friendly Fever? | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

The plot entangles the private and professional lives of seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Street of Shame | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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