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Word: holocaustic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, the biggest headlines concerned the fire at Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, the city's worst fire since the Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. In the case of the Berlin story, TIME'S function was to supply the information and intelligence that would help the reader to be knowledgeable about Berlin rather than to fret over it. In the case of the Chicago fire, TIME had another task-to take the facts of tragedy and mold them into a compelling narrative of misfortune and error. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Chicago School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...other hand, he added, some religious persons are suspicious enough of the secular university to believe that an organization like the Fellowship can "do no more than save a few souls from the encompassing holocaust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford Discusses 'False Direction' In Religious Rift | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Child of Our Time, by Michel del Castillo. The tortured cry of one innocent child raised over the holocaust of Europe's concentration camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...French response was a holocaust. Throughout the countryside Senegalese, spahis and Foreign Legionnaires were given carte blanche to kill and pillage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: The Reluctant Rebel | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Answering a dusty question, Adlai Stevenson told reporters in Paris, "I shall not seek the nomination," then followed up the old response with a parable. Holocaust had obliterated life on earth, Adlai recounted, leaving one shook-up gorilla. Wandering hungrily on the ashen plains, the ape at length came upon a cave. In the cave was a beautiful lady gorilla, who purred: "We are the only two living beings on earth." "Lady," said the tired male, "have you got anything to eat?" From deep in the cave the lady gorilla brought forth a large, red apple. "Oh, lord," moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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