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Word: extinctionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Partly because jittery officials laid on heavy security guards that kept crowds from gathering, Syria's salute to its extinction seemed more subdued. But citizens voted heavily-twice as many cast ballots as in any previous election. They also voted publicly, and one NBC cameraman photographed the same voter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: 0.99994 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Wearing Them Out. From that point on, says Von Braun, Huntsville lived "under a continued threat of extinction. We were all the time told that in all likelihood, since the Air Force had roles and missions, there was no need for the Jupiter, and we would go out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: We Kind of Refused to Die | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Armored with the courage that comes from living year after year under the gun, the Turks are unimpressed by Russia's rocket-rattlings. In the midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

On the surface, the book (its setting is French Equatorial Africa) tells the adventures of a dentist named Morel who becomes obsessed with the notion of protecting wild fauna from hunters. But Novelist Gary is really concerned with "another animal who needed protection"-man. Elephants to Morel are "the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peace to the Pachyderms | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

This was a sound and sober analysis of the results of the NATO meeting (see THE PARIS CONFERENCE). The leaders of NATO had agreed unanimously to arm the Atlantic Alliance with history's most powerful weapons despite the Kremlin's threats that this could bring their extinction; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Atlantic Policy | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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