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Word: obviously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Musa, Malayan Minister of Education, discussed his country's fight against the Communists, whose forces have now been pushed back to the jungles and to rural communities. Their pretext of opposing colonialism, while the country has achieved independence, and their rejection of amnesty offers have shown the people the obvious failure of the Party, he said...

Author: By Arnold Goldstein, | Title: Seminar Forum Discusses Italy, Ferment in Asia | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...return, the Chinese are far more efficient. As a shipment of 4,500 tons of South American cotton arrived at a Chinese port recently, U.S.-trained Chinese inspectors swarmed over it, carefully grading each" bale. The Chinese are tough and unbending in trade negotiations, often cancel contracts for no obvious reason. Said a Frenchman who packed his bags and returned home from Red China without a franc's worth of trade: "The atmosphere is decidedly bad for doing business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Chinese Junk | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...thoughtful, the Count cruel and selfish. Yet, despite protestations, the Count's entire household refuses to believe the two are not the same man; and only the Count's lovely Italian mistress (Nicole Maurey) senses a difference. Thus the two roles demand the subtlest of distinctions and preclude all obvious ones--a challenge Guinness meets masterfully...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Alec Guinness Excels in 'The Scapegoat' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Population: 100,000. The Negev, at the strategic crossroads of three continents, has obvious value to Israel and the West. Yet few parts of the world qualify better for the name "badlands," the desert so scarred by erosion and so parched by drought (less than 2 in. of rainfall in some areas) that many engineers believe only water pipelines from the north can make it habitable-and then on a minor scale. Glueck disagrees. He argues that the Negev once supported a fairly dense population, possibly 100,000 or more people, and that now it can be made to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life at the Crossroads | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...necessarily more inhibited; while his inhibitions are public, the philobat's are mostly private-often he is unaware of them. And in his more restrained way, the ocnophil may get as much real satisfaction out of life. For while the philobat's enjoyment is more obvious and open, "this hides the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Come to the Fair | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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