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Word: orients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Split | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Cinema columnists duly reported the state of Elizabeth's wonder, followed the romance play by play. Glenn gave her his gold football, his All-America sweater and finally, Elizabeth said, his troth, effective in three years, some time after his tour of duty in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

After 14 years and countless breaks and reconciliations, Siri and August were divorced. He grew a Mephistophelean beard and devoted himself to the study of evil. He roamed about Europe, now trying to photograph the moon, now trying to make gold. He was interested in the Orient and Buddhism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

According to the stipulations of the AVC grant, made in memory of the late Brigadier General Evans Carlson, the scholarship recipients must return to the Orient to work for the "regeneration of Asia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Awards $850 in Scholarships | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Gump's Goes Modern | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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