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Word: organ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous Belgian officials sent wives and children off on "holidays"' in nearby Portuguese Angola, Abako's party organ Notre Kongo issued a warning of trouble to come. "The hour of testing has arrived. The aliens will try to install a new regime that will be no change from the old . . . They will kill if Congolese are not careful. From the 18th to the 31st of December, you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...celebrate her 20-year climb from a Newark church choir to the prestige-drenched Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, organ-toned Songstress Sarah Vaughan rushed out and bought a $60,000 house in suburban New Jersey. One feature: a set of entrance chimes (cost: $450) that plays one of Sarah's biggest hits, How High the Moon. Exulted she: "I used to eat for a year on the price of what it now costs to ring my silly old doorbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Adzhubei on the staff of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, watched approvingly while Adzhubei, rising with predictable swiftness from cub reporter to editor, turned the doctrinaire voice of Communist youth into a reasonably lively paper. In reward, Adzhubei last May was named editor of Izvestia (circ. 1.800,000), official organ of the Soviet government-and it, too, began taking on a new look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sugar-Coated Pill | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Black." From being Russia's second dullest paper (Pravda-circ. 6,000,000-official Communist Party organ, is incontestably the dullest), Izvestia became one of the sprightliest. Out went some of Tuesday's boring repetitions of what Pravda, the only-paper in Russia with a Monday edition, had said the day before. On the front page, once the unassailable domain of party catechisms, news stories surprisingly appeared, and the ponderous headlines (A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF THE UNITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE AND OF RALLYING AROUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY) became downright breezy (I VISITED THE VINNITSA SPY CENTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sugar-Coated Pill | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...ORGAN TOUR. John Francis presents music and performers of the "King of Instruments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Programs for the Week | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

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