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Word: personalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Listen, the Wind. Simply by appearing in person at the East German Party Congress, Khrushchev demonstrated his support for East Germany's Stalinist chief, goateed Walter Ulbricht. "The wind isn't blowing into your face but Adenauer's." he told party activists. "Don't worry, they'll come yet and knock on your door and say, we're from Bonn and would like to negotiate." He drove into the countryside and hopped out to tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Conqueror on Tour | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...kill you." In 1955 Dunn was blackjacked. A few days later, an ex-Marine boxer told him that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled the defense. The Kellam-backed commonwealth's attorney did not allow Dunn to take the stand, and Kellam-supported Police Justice Eugene Gresham did not permit Dunn's lawyer to address the court. The chief was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amateur Editor | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...week, as a gesture of good will, Macmillan flew to Paris. Obviously pleased, protocol-conscious General de Gaulle, who rarely leaves his own office when he is in Paris, drove out to the airport in his shiny new Citroën DS 19 to greet his English visitorj in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Tale of Two Cities | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...presence of so exalted a person as the Crown Prince Akihito. 24, the young girl who guided his tour of Lake Akan on the northern island of Hokkaido last week had observed the strictest decorum. But suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, she burst into an island song. "The black lily," she crooned, "is the flower of love. Shall I give this flower to you?" Then she presented the surprised prince with a real black lily "to symbolize our hope that he will soon marry a beautiful girl as his princess." The girl who spoke out of turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: A Black Lily for the Prince | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

These depressing statistics are part of a survey by the National Council of Churches that will be published in full next fall. Editorialized last week's Christian Century: In the old American view, the parson was "the representative 'person' of the community, partaking of its representative lot-economically as well as otherwise. The lady of the manse, as helpmeet to her husband, was a sort of stewardess of the steward of the mysteries of God; she raised children as olive plants at his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Poor Parson | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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