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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only of Poland. Ever since the Hungarian revolt, when farmers up and left the collectives, the Communist leaders have had a hard time getting them back. Last December Hungary's Party Boss Janos Kadar confessed to Moscow that only 17% of the land was collectivized, and added, "We know we are behind other Socialist countries . . . but we are moving ahead as quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Putting on the Pressure | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Lightly togged in a skintight cream-colored dress-and little else-Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe bantered breathlessly with windswept Chicago newsmen on a potpourri of familiar topics. On underwear: "I have no prejudice against it." Sex: "How do I know about man's need for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. Sex counts like everything else. I'd never discount it." Press conferences: "Occasionally it's fun. Sometimes I can even get a chance to find out what I'm thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...story was much more than a beat. Working on Argus, Reporter Baldwin months ago got into the precarious position of having to decide when and how-if at all-to use material that could critically influence the course of international events. He decided that the world should not know then, and that it should know last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & the Secret | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...successful engineer, this would have been the height of presumption, but he got a polite and considered reply from California scientists. He was all wrong, they said, and they told him why. "They were right," he admits now. "My calculations were crude. There were things I didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up from the Elevator | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...promoter, Louis Arthur Chesler, 46, chairman and prime mover of both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: A Fast $70 Million | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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