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Word: freedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please place me in the Amen corner for Mortimer Adler. And for TIME'S superlative description of the Great Books project. Philosophy, indeed, is everybody's business . . . Let us educate the freed citizen for a free life, and give him the knowledge to live it intelligently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...that he felt bruised, her mouth, and the whole warm length of her, silken clad, so that he was scalded breast and thigh, shaken terrified kindled deathlost uncaring thinking for this I will be killed and at the same time that it was worth the dying, and boldly he freed his hands from about her waist and pushing aside her one garment caressed her bare flesh roughly almost brutally as though she were a peasant girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Without Commas | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...improve the soil, some religious villagers opposed the plowing-in of the live green growth. Tactfully Holmes broke down prejudices, stilled native hostility. The results were spectacular: in Etawah's 102 villages (pop. 79,000), food production jumped nearly 50% in three years. Malaria was eliminated; herds were freed from rinderpest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Root of the Matter | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Kelly needed further soothing, his musical got eight other top awards, for best picture, best story and screenplay, best musical score (in a musical), best sets, best (color) art direction, best (color) costume design, best color photography. Its Producer Arthur Freed won the prized Thalberg Award for merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winners | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...melancholy figures last week were Candidates Hevia and Agramonte, both of whom had been favored over Batista in the now-canceled June election. At his Havana mansion Hevia numbly muttered: "A hard blow to Cuban democracy." Agramonte, freed after a few hours in jail, pointed out bitterly that some straw votes had shown him winning. "Batista not only took the government away from Prío," he cried, "but he took it away from me-a double usurpation!" Unmoved, the Strong Man grinned his victory grin, talked vaguely of elections "as soon as possible," and waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Winner Take All | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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