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Word: giving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATLANTA JOURNAL: [Strauss] either can't, or won't give straight answers to straight questions. He seems a man with little faith in the Senate or the people. Now the Senate has replied, in the name of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Press Reaction | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...music of nose flutes. In Jamaica, the Queen was unruffled when an idolater threw his cream-linen jacket at her feet and prostrated himself, crying, as the police hauled him away, "I want the Queen to walk on my coat-I love the Queen!" Rarely did the royal nerves give way, but once, in New South Wales, the Queen and Prince Philip seemed to be squabbling as their closed car whisked through a town, and a group of deaf-mute bystanders swore they lipread Philip's retort to Elizabeth: "Come off it, sausage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Elizabeth II is a handsome woman of 5 ft. 3 in., brown-haired and blue-eyed, her head held royally on a swanlike neck. Her smooth skin, spring-in-England coloring and regal carriage give her subjects cause to call her beautiful. Her voice is clear-toned, with a still youthful ring; her movements are slow and assured. She wears her royal costumes and glittering gowns with majesty and grace; yet in tweeds and low-heeled shoes she gives out a no-nonsense warmth that can put any housewife in Winnipeg or Salisbury at ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...inspires its unity and continuity. Calmly seeing her duty, she has pledged herself to a Commonwealth "built on the highest qualities of the spirit of man: friendship, loyalty, and the desire for freedom and peace. To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races I shall give myself heart and soul every day of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...only give in Khrushchev's speech was purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Time to Go Home | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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