Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this wealth of misconceptions. Ambassador Francis sometimes added a weird and wily nugget of his own. On one occasion, he authorized the chief of the American military mission to help Trotsky in the formation of the new Red army on the ground that such an army could "by proper methods be taken from Bolshevik control and used against Germans, and even [against] its creators." Nevertheless, since official Washington offered scant guidance. Historian Kennan gives Francis high marks for showing as much "fidelity, persistence, courage...
Jottings From a Writer's Notebook (Dutton; $3) by sententious Author Van Wyck Brooks, 71, nearing his first half-century as an ever-flowering sage, essayist and literary historian, treated readers to some lively odds and ends of fact and philosophy. Nugget: "How many books can any man read? A supposedly well-informed journalist has written that Hitler undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. So Lawrence of Arabia was said to have read at Oxford most of the 40,000 books in the library of his college. So Thomas Wolfe allegedly devoured...
...three-year flight of Playboy ("Entertainment for Men") has shaken out a pack of wolf-whistling periodicals. In all, there are more than 40 playkids on the market, and they are fast outstripping the scandal sheets. The most successful of the upstarts are monthlies, with such names as Caper, Nugget, Rogue, Escapade and Cabaret. Like Playboy ( TIME, Sept. 24), they trade in the smirk, the leer and the female torso-only more so. Latest addition to the wolf pack, out this week, is a Negro monthly called Duke...
...week, not yet three years old but selling 688,000 copies, the slick and sassy 50? monthly threatened to outstrip Esquire (circ. 778,000) in a circulation fight. Playboy has also spawned a litter of its own imitators, e.g., Playgirl (which it is suing for too close an imitation), Nugget, Rogue, U.S. Male...
First, France and Germany had to settle their dispute over the Saar, the rich nugget of coal and steel which both have coveted for centuries. Second, Dulles of the U.S., Eden of Great Britain, Adenauer of West Germany, and Mendes-France of France had to meet and nail down the formula for giving West Germany its sovereignty. Third, the four foreign ministers and representatives of the other five governments of the London conference must work out controls on the German armaments industry. And at week's end the 14 powers must meet to admit West Germany to NATO...