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Word: monsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Monster | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Turks, though rejecting the plan, found it reconcilable with their cries of partition. The Greeks for the same reason were considerably upset. On Cyprus, Colonel Grivas issued a defiant leaflet distributed by boys on bicycles. It described Foot as a "Trojan horse" and the British plan as a "new monster." It told Foot: "Chew your plan and swallow it." But the Greek government of Constantine Karamanlis, though accused by the opposition of betrayal, dropped its longstanding demand for an advance promise of self-determination before entering any negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: In the Box | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...convention came face to face with the critter in the Civic Auditorium's new subterranean "Mole Hall." Every few seconds the caterpillar's double-hulled sides made of parachute silk heaved in simulation of caterpillar motion (achieved with the aid of a huge air-blowing system). The monster, which stole the show among 285 commercially sponsored exhibits, was Surrealist Salvador Dali's unrealistic idea of tranquillity executed for Wallace Laboratories to promote Miltown. Estimated total cost of the exhibit: $100,000, including a $35,000 fee for Artist Dali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Nirvana with Miltown | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Since Kishi became premier a year ago. Sato has been giving him support, explaining that "to be a successful politician one must always be with the main current." His appointment last week caused the stock of Mitsubishi, one of Japan's monster combines, to rise. Sato has such close contacts with Japanese big business and such a private information service that his nickname is "Hayamimi' (Fast Ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Voice from Heaven | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Married. John Hersey, 43, author (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Wall), campaign speech writer for Adlai Stevenson, World War II TIME-LIFE foreign correspondent; and Mrs. Barbara Day Addams Kaufman, 37, first wife of The New Yorker's Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally, Home Bodies) Addams; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fairfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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