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Word: nation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young wives dress-or rather undress-when they know that they will be seen in public. I'd like to see the same kind of restrictions placed on attire in the suburban supermarkets, and especially on tourists who are visiting some of the important places in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...further said that liberalism is not merely the power of the purse, but it is idealism. There has been a change in what we call liberalism-into a qualitative liberalism with emphasis on civil liberties, human rights, and the relationship of our nation to the world about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...view the exchange of visits with confidence-confidence in its own economic-technological strength, confidence that the advantages in East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system capable of detecting and tracking missile and rocket firings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Cold Thaw | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...fellow Americans," said President Eisenhower, looking squarely out from the nation's TV sets one night last week. "I want to speak to you tonight on an issue of great importance to every man, woman and child in this nation. It is above any partisan political consideration. It affects every American regardless of occupation, regardless of political affiliation. I speak of labor reform legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Square Deal for Labor? | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...having proved his courage in crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The King's Comeback | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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