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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no doubt that Alanbrooke was an able old professional who saw service from Southern Ireland through India to France (in 1914 and 1939) and carried on effectively in one of the most demanding jobs of World War II. There is also no doubt that some smallness in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

By the 1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

President Eisenhower's modern version of the Tale of the Arabian Nights, while mercifully only 19 days long, bears all too unfortunate resemblance to the original. At a time when the West is in vital need of specific policies and concrete leadership, he is playing the role of Scheherazade, spinning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arabian Knight | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

While it is apparent what might be accomplished by Ike's Grand Tour through Asia his attempt to pursue the same approach in Europe reveals the failure of his administration to come to gripes with the concrete problems of western alliance. Le grande de Gaulle is unlikely to be swayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arabian Knight | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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