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Word: leste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro Vote: In 1952 the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket polled 21% of the Negro vote, in 1956 upped the figure to an astonishing 39%. But lest the G.O.P. start kidding itself about an irreversible trend, Gallup reported that Negroes generally used the word "Eisenhower" when they liked what the party did, used the word "Republicans" when they damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Shifting Vote | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...such conservatives as Theodore Green and Harry Byrd. How did Humphrey get there? You will remember him for his floor fight at the 1948 Democratic convention (in defiance of agreements among party leaders) to get a firm civil rights plank in the platform. He has since learned to compromise. Lest you shudder (White feels that a Senator must "accommodate" to be effective), it should be noted that this compromise may have considerably speeded up the chances of some civil rights laws...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Citadel | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

Manager Marv Jenson saw the scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lemme Open Up | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...history of treachery and moral depravity of the Soviet leaders. The Hungarian massacre has shown that the use of moral persuasion against those who have no moral standards is useless. If the U.N. cannot act, and "we can only act like men," let us act with heart and arms lest history describe us as asses who fought for liberty with nothing more than our jawbones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...iron BB. Often when they went on a date, the shot went along in its little plaid bag. En route to dinner or dance, Parry usually managed to pass a convenient field. He would park, peel off his shirt and get off a few practice tosses-lest the evening wind up a total loss. Finally Sandra got fed up and sent Parry packing. In January 1955> transformed into an Air Force lieutenant, he came back and proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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