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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fishing. But the Syrians, as if to dramatize their geographic importance in the most barbaric and graphic way, let half a train shipment of 1,000 Iraqi sheep die on the way to Beirut by simply refusing them water. As the carcasses were burned in a giant pyre at Beirut, the message was clear: it is not so easy to isolate Syria. Syria was also laboring to convince everyone that it had not turned Communist. "I am a considerably wealthy man, and I am determined to keep my wealth," protested Syrian Acting Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who negotiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: A Vague Foreboding | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

People just wouldn't believe him, decided the law professor, and so for nearly a year he kept his little secret. Finally he let the word slip out to a friend. Last week all Brazil was abuzz about the reluctant claim of João de Freitas Guimaraes. 48. a wealthy, respected professor of Roman law at Santos' Catholic University. Did the professor really take an hour-long whirl through outer space in a flying saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cups or Saucers? | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...twelve years she completed 58 panels, crowded with 158 clearly recognizable residents of the Chatham vicinity. "I needed each one to pose for an hour," she says. "I paint very quickly. I would do the face and hands and let them go. They were all very willing and helpful, and many told their life stories while they were posing. I always offered them a modeling fee of a dollar, but not many took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christ on Cape Cod | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...formal premiere of Ford's new Edsel in Detroit last week, Chairman Ernest R. Breech let the first cat out of the. Big Three bag on a subject everyone has been wondering about: the price tags on 1958's cars. Ford's prices, said Breech, are going up. Best guess: an average boost of $100 per car. The main reason is that "the public apparently desires significant changes every year," as Ford discovered in 1956, when General Motors' heavily facelifted Chevrolet left the competition far behind. To win its current lead in 1957, Ford spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Autos: Another $100 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...legs with a small head and nothing in between-nothing shapely that is. She has no waistline, no bosom and no hips. Let us hope that she is a nice gal inwardly because outwardly she looks a little bit monsterish. Inside these new toadlike shapeless clothes, the 1958 woman of fashion will have to be the very jewel of sweetness and grace to even seem human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FASHION: A Little Bit Monsterish | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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