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Word: oed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shirley O'Neill has edified a nation. The parents of Miss O'Neill have every reason to be the proudest people on this earth today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public Library Service Division, and onto the closed shelf reserved for works on integration or those considered scatological (circulation by special request only). Indeed, by the very fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Of Rabbits & Races | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...that what NATO's arsenal now needs is ground-attack fighters. He won no commitments. Asked later about a report that the government now hoped to postpone a decision on the chance that a summit conference might agree on some kind of European disengagement. Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley replied: ''Yes. that's what we had in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The $400 Million Question | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Richard O. Cowan, 25, of Salt Lake City, has been blind for 22 years. A Phi Bete graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was a Mormon missionary for three years. He entered Stanford University last year as a history graduate student, where he has a straight-A record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Their Best | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type B or O). How often does this happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stanching Transfusions | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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