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Word: means (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one member of the U.S. delegation: "You know, you sweat like hell, cable like hell, lobby like crazy in the corridors-and then it's finally all over and it doesn't mean a thing. This resolution was so meek it wouldn't have scared Louisa May Alcott. By abstaining we pleased the Arab bloc, and at the same time we didn't get De Gaulle sore. We just hope to God he starts negotiating with Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Scaring Louisa May Alcott | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...mummy does not prove that there is a civilization buried in the Sahara but it does mean that, in the next few years, the desert will be swarming with anthropologists looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Behind closed doors Turkey's Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu urged him to be "cautious and realistic" in his coming dealings with the Russians. Ike assured the Turks that U.S. willingness to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. did not mean that the U.S. would give ground. That evening, at a dinner in the presidential palace, the President of the U.S. paid his own unique tribute to the doughty land that had done him such honor. Said he: "No power on earth, no evil, no threat can frustrate a people of your spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Come Rain, Come Shine | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...limit ourselves merely to meeting the Kremlin's military threat." Watson's speech was greeted with some restraint. Later, it was liberally interpreted (Watson left for Europe immediately after the speech) by incoming N.A.M. President Rudolf F. Bannow, president of Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines, Inc. to mean that "if you give the economy more push, it will produce more taxes automatically." Bannow went on to say that "taxes should be such as to encourage business," and plugged the N.A.M. program for reducing taxes to 47% maximum on individual and corporate income. Such tax reforms would put "enough incentive into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Jarring Note | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...psychiatric examination, but the doctors could find nothing more than the disorders of love. Francesco went back to following his beloved, crying after her, "Darling wife, sweet love, my soul!" When Angela answered "Imbecile!" he would say worriedly, "Have I offended you? I didn't mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Untamed Shrew | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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