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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shirley Stith was the first person out of her seat. She leaped through the hole. As she touched the ground, there was a flash of blue sparks, and she crumpled to the ground. In breaking, the tree had pulled down a 2,400-volt power line, left the wire draped as a single-strand shroud over the metal hulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: Alone in the Dark | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...evidence that Nasser wanted the outbreak at that moment or had decreed its timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Rolling & Controlling Events | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...motto, "Whilst I breathe I hope," Sir Robert added: "It is not yet too late for me to have a family." Debrett's Editor Hankinson believes there is no question that Dr. Dillon is the legal heir, announces firmly: "I have always been of the opinion that a person has all rights and privileges of the sex that is, at a given moment, recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Change of Heir | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...stood blank and innocent, staggered by the very existence of such a person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Funhouse | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...agree that a need for an Old Testament course exists. Possibly a revival of English 35 is the solution. We do not seek to refute the literary significance of the Bible; no intelligent person would do this. However, in answer to the hostile tone of your editorial, we submit that a course on Scottish Border Ballads should not suffer a literary death at the hands of the Old Testament. Michael E. Hager '60 Philip E. Burnham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BORDER BALLAD | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

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