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Word: jibes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adissimo. Spaniards' designation of Don Ramón as the brother-in-law-issimo is a none-too-gentle jibe at both Serrano and the Generalissimo. Privately they sometimes call Franco "that pulpy olive fashioned into the likeness of a man." For most Spaniards feel that Franco is a wobbler, that Ramón Serrano Suñer is the power behind the fasces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Verge of Battle | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...this point there is general agreement among Tom, Jim, and Aubrey. But they don't jibe on the mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes that private scholarships are needed; and Mr. Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE THREE | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

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