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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke an outraged Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1893, after the nation's business had been stalled in the 53rd Congress by a filibuster which had lasted two months. Last week, watching the Senate of the 81st Congress go into the second week of an undistinguished filibuster, many a citizen would agree with the late Senator Lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Weapon of the Minority | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...kick out of passing out some cards Brigadier General Wallace Graham had brought down from Washington. In large type the cards read: "Don't Go Away Mad." In smaller print: "Just Go Away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Don't Go Away Mad | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...citizen of South Carolina first and a veteran second. In a state as poor as we are, I would be for $60 million for roads and for schools. We have [only] so much wealth, and we have to help the state by making it go around ... I certainly am willing to put my political life on the line any time for this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Favors, Please | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan's League for Less Noise sighted on a new target: the loose manhole covers that go clonk-clonk when cars pass over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...treaty will go into effect, for 20 years, when a majority of the signers have ratified. The framers of the pact labeled it a defensive alliance, permitted by Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. Western Europe had been eager to learn the extent of U.S. military commitment, in case one or more of the pact nations should be attacked by "an aggressor." The commitment (Article Five) provides that if one or more of the treaty nations should be attacked by an aggressor, each of the others will, individually or collectively, take whatever measures it deems necessary against the aggressor "including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: All Fine | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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