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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once you get the hang of interpreting these things, it is like having a new world laid out before you. You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan lamasery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Berlin, there seems little doubt. Some citizens may not know too much about the details of the crisis (in a New York Times spot survey of 470 people across the U.S., 185, or 39%, did not even know that Berlin is surrounded by Communist East Germany), but there is clear agreement that the U.S. must stand fast against Russian threats. The U.S. is no more disposed to retreat from Berlin than it was during the 1948 airlift. At that time, the Gallup poll reported that 80% thought the U.S. should remain. Last week a Gallup poll showed an almost identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Course-Shaping Recess | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...mate answered and said O.K. and blew our whistle." Ten minutes later, Gomez saw the tanker's lights ahead and off to the right, again reported to the bridge. Again the mate sounded the whistle. Then, says Gomez, "all of a sudden, within moments, I don't know how long, I saw lights off the starboard bow." The lights got "bigger and bigger, as though it was going to come down on me." Gomez ran for his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Collision at Sea | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Everyone wants to know him)-With his musical sound And his Baskerville Hound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Mr. Hodgson | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...wife has left him; his son despises him, and most people fear him, actually, he is a harmless little man whose sole commitment is to the civil service. But it is 1905 and Russia has just taken a beating from Japan, factory workers are striking, and the bomb throwers know that their big chance has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time Bomb | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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