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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"This is the darkest day in Southern history since Reconstruction," vowed a speaker at a Kiwanis meeting in Marshall, Texas, whereupon the Kiwanians refused to give their customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Prick of the Bayonet | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

But as the week wore on, many Indonesians including Mohammed Hatta, began to be assailed by the uncomfortable suspicion that what was going on was just another of Sukarno's morality plays. Among the things that had driven Hatta into opposition and the colonels into revolt were Sukarno'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Not So Sweety-Sweety | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Cookies & Assurance. Mother Veronica's stand was cheered through all of San Marino (pop. 13,000). Parents climbed up to the grey stone convent atop a 900-ft. cliff to pledge support through the double iron grille in the visitors' room, received in turn a whispered assurance, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Defiant Abbess | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Under Grandfather's expert guidance, Gilles started on a career of pillage and debauchery, sadism and sodomy. The only year of his life that becomes him was 1429, when he fought side by side with Joan of Arc against the English, and King Charles VII made him, at 24...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Inside the Castle | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

At noon one day last week, Rachele Mussolini stood in the family cemetery at Predappio while the body of her husband Benito Mussolini, hidden for years in a Capuchin monastery by a government conscious of its value as a symbol to neoFascists, was formally identified, then placed under a tricolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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