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Word: neutralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been waging haphazard war against royal government troops for more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Turnip Watchers | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...order to get large-scale operation under way again, Nasser might permit an international board of overseers, composed chiefly of neutral nations, to supervise the payment of creditors, and to see that the canal is maintained and improved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middle East | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

...well as providing efficient administration is an international control board that will leave legal sovereignty with Nasser, but will prevent him from backing out on his financial obligations or restricting canal use. Because of his eagerness to get the money, the Egyptian dictator would probably allow a genuinely neutral control board so long as he gets revenues and can point to Suez as Egypt's property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middle East | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

...dictator. In an interview with an Indian reporter, Nasser confirmed Egypt's veto of an interim proposal put forward through the U.N. last month by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway. By this plan, 50% of canal tolls would be paid to Egypt, the rest to some such neutral agency as the World Bank, to be held in escrow for repaying the original owners of the confiscated canal company. Instead, said Nasser, if users pay all tolls to Egypt, the canal "will run smoothly and without difficulty from our side"-and he might even be willing to let English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Mother Goose & Propaganda | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

After launching abstract painting, the group was quickly broken up when the war came in 1914 and Kandinsky had to leave Germany. At first Gabriele joined him in neutral Switzerland. But when he went to Moscow, she returned to Munich, and the end came in 1916 after a final three months together in Stockholm. Gabriele's black mood was reflected in the bleak, burnt-out landscapes she painted on the ship going home. One year after Kandinsky left her, by then divorced from his first wife, he married the daughter of a Russian general; he survived the Communist Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Master & Mistress | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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