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Word: messe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser & Co. in their noisy pan-Arabism and holy-war complex against Israel, yet stepped forward in an earnest attempt to reach some solution with Tunisia's Bourguiba of the mess in Algeria (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: VISITOR: MOHAMMED V | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...issue with live examples of the "Capitalist Challenge." What greater contrast can you offer than West Germany and Ludwig Erhard as free enterprise and France and Socialist strangulation? It looks as if your report should be made available to all politicians who would sell their heritage for a mess of pottage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...even Foy, thrust as an invisible character into an all-too-visible musicomedy mess, can never move with the show; he can only draw attention away from it, like someone marching exuberantly out of step. The story, with its romantic snarls and journalistic crises, clumps its stubbornly senseless, monstrously long-winded way. It is a story that Foy can briefly brighten or interrupt, but never shorten or save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1957 | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...facts made little difference to Harry Truman. By the time anyone caught up with them, he was off in Los Angeles assaulting the Republicans for letting the U.S. defense "go to pot for a mess of pottage called a balanced budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ragtime | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Symphony Sid will dig that immediately. For the uninitiated, "down-and-outers" may be offered as a synonym for "Beat Generation," albeit a weak one. Loosely defined, the term can be applied to almost anybody from 15 to 40 who thinks that things are in a hell of a mess so you might as well have a good time. IT is probably best described as an "ECTSTATICALLY Good Time," though the feeling is as hard to pin down as any mystical experience...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Beat Generation's Busy Dissipation | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

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