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Word: orbited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as possible in the form of sending either funds to buy food or the foodstuffs themselves. Although Titoist Yugoslavia is a Communist dictatorship of the most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aid to Tito | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...Calculation of the orbit of the asteroid Eros by Dr. Eugene Rabe of the University of Cincinnati Observatory. This led to the discovery that the earth is 1/10th of 1% nearer the sun than previous calculations had placed it (92.9 million miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Lights | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

President Conant last night said, "The countries of the West, because they are free, will win out in any struggle with Russia. In the long run the competition of the free countries of the world and these within the orbit of the dictatorship of the proletariat must result in a victory for freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Calls Free West Unbeatable | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

...Malenkov is a sharp case in point. No Western diplomat or journalist seems ever to have had a serious, revealing talk with him. He has taken part in no international parley, save with comrades in the Soviet satellite belt. He has never traveled in countries outside Moscow's orbit. His career is known only in a framework as spare as the man himself is fleshy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Comet Tanned. After leaving the earth for the second time, the comet bore down on the planet Mars (the Greeks recorded a love affair between the god Mars and the goddess Venus). This encounter settled and domesticated the comet, which accepted a regular orbit. Now, as the planet Venus, it revolves around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus on the Loose | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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