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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Service Separation. In St. Louis, the city zoo received two Barbary apes from Gibraltar with a note from the U.S. naval liaison officer: "Notify me of their safe arrival at the zoo, so they may be officially discharged from the Royal Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...every country," said he, "I hope to make widely known America's deepest desire: a world in which all nations may prosper in freedom, justice and peace, unmolested and unafraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: One Man's Purpose | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...gave him some $806 million more than he asked for. But he could not choose between proliferating, billion-dollar rival missile systems, crack down on interservice rivalry, or explain away the Administration's decision to rely on bomber power and accept a missile lag behind Soviet Russia which may not be closed before 1963-if then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: First Team Going In | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Disarming the Penguins | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

This murderous skirmish last October in the windswept wastes of Ladakh province may have done more than anything else to bring Asia to what Jawaharlal Nehru calls "one of those peak events in history when a plunge has to be taken in some direction." The gunfire in Ladakh echoed through India. Instead of shouts of "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!" (India and China are brothers). New Delhi's streets resounded with the clamor, "Give us arms! We will go to Ladakh!" The Red Chinese embassy was stoned, the All-India Students' Congress called for a "Throw Back the Aggressors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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