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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Anderson to the U.S.'s No. 1 apple-grower: "Harry, you really know how to grow good apples, but you sure don't know how to count votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Sad Episode | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Your article on Congressman Halleck (R., Ind.) demonstrates what can be done by a man with conviction and know-how in spite of the odds. Let's get behind the President and insist upon fiscal responsibility by our national legislators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

There he sat until the Communists came to Shanghai some ten years ago. Abbot Soong moved out just before the Pa Lu moved in, and where he sits now I do not know. But I believe his impoverished congregation, which moved with him, still reveres Abbot Soong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Best I Know." Lewis Strauss sat out the session with a friend in his cavernous Commerce Department office. When he got news of the vote by phone, his eyes reddened, he bit hard on his pipe, then he said quietly: "We have to be able to take things like this." Next morning, summoned to the White House for a 20-minute talk with the President, Strauss genially told reporters that he was going to spend some time on his Virginia cattle farm and write a book, tentatively entitled Men and Decisions, about his Washington years. "It has been a privilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Sad Episode | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Guns. Unfortunately, the Navy then performed with far less skill on the public-relations front. After Tail Gunner Corder was taken to a hospital (his condition: very good), the 13 other crewmen were hustled into a press conference. Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons - two .50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Incident in Death Alley | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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