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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In normal days, John Eisenhower's wife, with only part-time help, runs her own house in Gettysburg (at the edge of Ike's farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Mother in the Spotlight | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Conservative Columnist David Lawrence, no admirer of Adlai Stevenson, called the proposal "the most significant utterance this year on labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Behind the Fog | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

While such scenes are obviously pleasing to Johnson, his friends see his real mission as creating a bloc of votes that can influence, if not determine, the Democrats' choice of a candidate. Johnson and his sagacious Texas sidekick, Speaker Sam Rayburn, expect to hold more than 300 delegate votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Pro | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Between potshots at each other, the Democratic Advisory Council's 31 members found time during their long weekend in Manhattan to fire off a formal 22-point salvo at the Eisenhower Administration. "The Republican Party is unworthy to continue to exercise the power of national government," preambles the D.A.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Liberal Program | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The Algerian rebels had been holding off any negotiations with France hoping to make a show of world backing in the U.N. Last year they had come within one vote of a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, and at least one nation-Castro's Cuba-had indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Scaring Louisa May Alcott | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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