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Word: fall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet Khrushchev's plane when it arrives in mid-September, though Khrushchev is not technically chief of the Soviet state,*and protocol does not demand welcome by the President. Ike also made it known that he was reserving time for a possible Big Four summit meeting in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Cold Thaw | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...confidence-confidence in its own economic-technological strength, confidence that the advantages in East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system capable of detecting and tracking missile and rocket firings far beyond the range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Cold Thaw | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard University associate professor is writing plays. "The Agamemnon" was printed in 1952 in "Botteghe Oscure," a magazine run by an Italian nobleman who lives on a "street of dark shops." Then the play was published in book form, and it will be produced in New York in the fall...

Author: By Nancy Smiler, | Title: Alfred Foresees Fight In Producing His Play | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

Shaping up is a drive not to pare but to share the aid burden with Germany, Britain, France, and even some of the underdeveloped nations. This would be done by creating an International Development Association, dubbed "Ida." Ida was introduced to last fall's meeting of the World Bank (TIME, Oct. 20), but failed to get far because the U.S. did not push it with vigor. Now the U.S. expects to plump hard for Ida at the World Bank's September meeting in Washington, set it up with initial capital of $1 billion (one-third contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mutual (Really) Security | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Was a Bourbon | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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