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Word: offerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eying each other across the ring, France's Charles de Gaulle and Algerian rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas last week sat waiting for the next diplomatic round. Silent hauteur was Paris' first response to the counterproposals with which Abbas and his "Cabinet" had met De Gaulle's offer of Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). The rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable to Paris was Abbas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Open Window | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

After hearing Mrs. Gall out, Judge Resat Soysal ordered one of the Americans, Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto of Brooklyn, released on bail. Then ignoring a prosecution offer to agree to the bailing of two more of the sergeants, the judge set the next session of the trial some 25 days off-the longest interval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Sergeants on Trial (Contd.) | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Only a few were lucky. The Post Office Department, which guessed that 600 stamps had been reversed between printings, quickly found 300 of them. Possibly 200 more had been located by dealers or collectors; the rest were lost. Last week the Winnipeg syndicate took up Dealer Bileski's offer, sold him 16 of the stamps for $16,000. For alert Mildred Mason, who first noticed the upside-down seaway, the initial reward was a right-side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Upside-Down Seaway | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Inside the operating room, before and between operations, the floor must be swilled with this solution, the excess being removed by a wet-pickup vacuum cleaner. Ultraviolet lamp tubes girdle the operating room, high enough to offer no risk of skin burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger in the Hospital | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Issue. By age-old tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Case of the Bembas' Beer | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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