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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward talk's end. Ike made a special point of sounding a strong note on West Berlin: "Freedom, if there's to be peace, is indivisible. We've really got to be firm." Macmillan said, "I agree." On parley-at-the-summit, the President cautioned firmly: "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mission Accomplished | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Scheduling fast action on minimum programs, scaled down drastically from bold forecasts at the beginning of the 86th Congress, the leaders decided to call it -quits, adjourn this week if possible. Muttered one thoughtful Demo cratic Senator: "We've been gutted, absolutely gutted."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stone Wall | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Members' Rights. Labor-boss coercion is outlawed, members get the unqualified right to vote in union elections (by secret ballot), may speak up against policies, get fair and public hearing in disciplinary procedures, sue in U.S. courts if justice is not provided under union procedure.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Reform Act of 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

No Wire, No Trenches. At week's end thousands of Communist invaders were being ferried across the Nam Ma river on rafts and rubber boats powered by out board motors, and Red patrols pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Over the River | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Enforcers | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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