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Word: infant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caroline and John Jr., the Emperor brought figures of a soldier and an Ethiopian girl, each carved in ivory. Jacqueline Kennedy, making her first ceremonial appearance since the birth and death of her infant son, presented the Emperor's granddaughter, Princess Ruth Desta, 33, with a leatherbound guidebook to the White House, three art books and a vermeil dresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Display of Affection | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...week after its stormy birth, the infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Wild Actions, Wilder Threats | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...serenity of a monastery in 1506, as Brother Martin kneels in submissive piety to receive the monk's habit of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A God-Intoxicated Man | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...National Aeronautics and Space Administration raised its sights; Congress opened its pockets and poured all asked-for funds into NASA's outstretched hands. The U.S. space program sprouted like Jack's beanstalk, sucking up men and money at a prodigious rate, sending its tendrils into every state. Infant space industries grew overnight to monster maturity. Scientists and engineers flocked to space centers to find their pots of gold. There seemed no end to the bonanza. Before it was over, the moon race might cost $40 billion, but no one seemed to care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Grandstands Are Emptying For the Race to the Moon | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...chambers, notices a slipper beside the bed and graciously withdraws "lest the pretty little fool hiding behind the curtains should catch cold." Peter the Great, greeted by the King of France before the royal palace, graciously picks up his host and carries him up the steps like an infant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Faltering Trajectory | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

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