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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Justice. It will not occur if John McClellan can prevent it. To the job of preventing it he brings much more than his scowl and his voice; they are merely the sight and the sound of the controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Man Behind the Frown | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

But it was in London's Thames-side Shell-Mex House that the real drive to escape Nasser's dominance was being planned. There 30 of the world's top oil industrialists gathered at the urging of Standard Oil (N.J.) President Monroe Jackson Rathbone. They talked privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Through & Around Suez | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Many of the question, of course, are just stupid. Many important questions are not asked; although the Yearbook is interested in numbers of future progeny, it could not care less about future vocations. Absurd questions, which could have been answered freshman year (where is home, family income, reasons for coming...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: 321 | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

Though Nehru could escape his country's heat, he could not escape its mounting problems. His ambitious second five-year plan, intended to industrialize India, was running short of foreign exchange, and no nation seemed eager to put up the $1.6 billion needed to fill the gap. Internally, private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Troubled Vacation | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

One is Achilles on Skyros, a prime example of the later style of Nicolas Poussin, the master of the 17th century revival of classicism in France. Painted in 1656 for the French ambassador to the Vatican, it depicts the climactic moment in one of the liveliest of Greek legends. Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: VIRGINIA'S STORYTELLERS | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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