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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But hardware did much less than the Italians last week to steady the West's sometimes teetering confidence in its security. "The American people," wrote Washington Columnist Roscoe Drummond, "would like nothing better than to stand up and salute a courageous, riskful and determined ally."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Determined Ally | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Racket Ruckus. Every member of Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee is fervently against labor rackets, but some members are beginning to raise a private eyebrow at the way Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, 32, runs the show. "The Senators," says a Republican member of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Behind the Scenes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Rear Admiral John Hayward, 50, assistant chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development, will be promoted to vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Call for Test Pilots | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Before he agreed to try for the chairmanship at this week's national committee meeting, Morton sounded out Rockefeller and Nixon. Nixon was enthusiastic. Rockefeller also approved, although Morton, who could swing considerable influence one way or the other in the 1960 convention, stated publicly last January: "Some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: New Chairman? | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Aristophanes' Clouds, when produced in competition in 423 B.C., didn't even cop second prize; but it has since taken its rightful place among the masterpieces of satire, rivalled only by some of the works of Moliere, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Shaw. It is particularly appropriate for the Cantabrigian community, for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clouds | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

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