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Word: maneuverers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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An Ultimate Accounting. Some Democrats, e.g., Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, insisted that the release was purely a Republican political maneuver. As some angry reaction came in from abroad (see FOREIGN NEWS), Democrats charged that publication of the papers would do real harm to the U.S. position in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Light of History | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

The triumph, like the glass of beer, was not all it appeared to be. Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals, who have not forgiven Hatoyama's Democrats for the ousting of Yoshida after seven years as Premier, voted for Hatoyama as they had promised. But in the balloting for Speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Qualified Triumph | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Action of the proposal is contingent upon the recommendations of the Course of Study Committee, which will report next month, and faculty members indicated that there is a strong possibility conservatives would back unlimited cuts as a compromise maneuver.

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Yale Students May Have Unlimited Class Cuts Despite Official Denial | 3/26/1955 | See Source »

¶ Offered to give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Town & Country Life | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

The Purple Plain (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists) has something new and exotic to recommend it: a stunning 21-year-old Burmese beauty named Win Min Than, which means "brilliant a thousandfold." When she shimmers into focus in a screen-size closeup with a tremulous smile on her lips, sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Imports | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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