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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet, if Nasser had decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Turning Point | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Due Process. Though it says nothing about habeas corpus, jury trial, or the presumption that a man is innocent until proved guilty (a concept denounced as "middleclass nonsense" during last week's debate), the new Soviet code lays down that the Soviet citizen may not be punished except for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The New Law | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Menard prison's eight-page, tabloid-size monthly newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captive Press | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Sixteenth century Portuguese explorers heard rumors of unusually primitive Indians in the state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Stone Age | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Armand was as beautiful as a Greek god and as humorless as a congress of social workers. Annette loved him and tried to make a man of him, and some nights she succeeded. But humanity had to be saved, bombs had to be thrown, and Annette soon became bored. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Love an Idealist | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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