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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the huge, high-ceilinged Salle Pleyel, Paris' Cartiegie Hall, the thin, chirping syllables swooped and soared from the public-address system like some kind of static. Finally, the record scratched to an end. Some 2,000 delegates to the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, realizing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

At Fushimi Senior High, Keishi Kanno, editor of the school paper, led a discussion of the new sex equality. "The girls," he charged, "are more otemba [tomboyish] and masculine than we expected." Both boys & girls were openly critical of Japan's traditional family system which gives the family head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report Card from Kyoto | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

The Voice of the Dogs. With this bit of satire, the Moscow Circus last week redeemed itself from grievous sins. Six weeks ago the unsmiling men who watch over the Russians' leisure hours had complained that the circus dodged ideology and served up too much fun. Most harshly criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Don't Laugh, Clown! | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

The Silken Curtain. Over the "Voice," he said, he had heard that a fascist war criminal was being jailed by the U.S. "I am the kind of man," explained Berman, "who believes everything that comes from abroad." The suave Kio stood ready to show how unwise that was. Several workmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Don't Laugh, Clown! | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Vechernyaya Moskva ecstatically visualized the future: "Here we are in the vestibule of a new hotel. We enter a gallery and see Moscow. How it has changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hole in the Ground | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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