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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the U.S. assuming major responsibility for defending the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middie East, the British were adapting their strategic posture to their reduced military requirements and their straitened economic circumstances. By next April the headquarters of Middle Eastern defense will be moved from Cyprus 1,700 miles south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Turboprop Strategy | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Though actually a model T compared to future reactors, its pressurized (2,000 Ibs. per sq. in.) water reactor is similar to the safe, older model that drives the atomic submarine U.S.S. Nautilus. To make absolutely sure that no radioactive water ever escapes, its 100,000 ft. of pipes are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: A Baby Is Born | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

In the end, with a wonderfully silly assist from Mickey Rooney, the boys have their ball, and the rat gets caught in his own trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

For nearly 500 years, the persecuted Jews of Eastern Europe led a narrow, closed-in existence. The only escape lay inward-in wild frenzies of Hasidic worship or in equally wild flights of the imagination. In this kind of life, the storytellers became the soul's best physicians; drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Songs in Exile | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

To escape stalemate on the disarmament proposals, the United States has little choice but to seek direct talks with the Soviet Union. Assuming that the Russians are still as sincerely interested in reducing the threat of annihilation as they appeared last spring, there is a good chance that some preliminary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Way Talks | 11/23/1957 | See Source »

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