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Word: hurts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the barber. "But we beat him up. A hurt kaffir stays a good kaffir-for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CITY IN TERROR | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...secure a just settlement of our pending questions, and that of Palestine in particular . . . Neutrality is impossible ... At the present critical moment neutrality is considered by the Western bloc as animosity, and if we gain the animosity of the Western bloc, it may drive that bloc to continue to hurt us. If, at the moment of need, we take a neutral stand and leave the burden of defending the Middle East to Turkey and Israel, we should not be astonished if the West should recompense them at our expense for their loyalty. If we are not strong, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Courageous Premier | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Matignon, official residence of French Premiers, to discharge French politicians arriving to talk cabinet posts with Pleven. When ex-Premier Queuille's sleek Delahaye almost collided with Foreign Minister Schuman's modest Citroën, Passenger Queuille doffed his hat, asked: "Are you hurt?" Said Passenger Schuman: "No, but I'm in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Black Coffee Cabinet | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...guessed that he was pulling the pin of a hand grenade. Exactly four seconds later, above the sound of the bugles, there was an explosion. Five men fell to the ground: General Chanson and Governor Thanh, mortally wounded, died within the hour. Two other French officers were seriously hurt. The fifth man, his abdomen ripped open, one hand and one leg completely torn away, was Trinh Van Minh, the assassin; he died within minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Marked Men | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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