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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With grim determination last week, Gaitskell again asserted his leadership. To promise unequivocally to renounce the bomb as Cousins demanded, said Gaitskell, would be "escapist, myopic and positively dangerous to the peace of the world." He refused to give such a pledge, and denied the right even of a Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: Britain: Gaitskell Wins | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

As Kennedy talked. Di Salle thawed, and both agreed to meet again in the fall before making any announcement. But Kennedy's message was plain and Di Salle got it: if Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ohio Power Play | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

As for the president himself, said President Stratton, "he must be more than a referee. He must be prepared to take positions on matters of educational import. Above all, he must be able to formulate his aims and make clear what he proposes to achieve ... To this charge I pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Than a Referee | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

But Adenauer got tougher at a meeting of the party executive. He sent Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier raging from the room with a sneering, "I know you don't like me. You never liked me." Then he demanded a loyalty pledge from the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus. Shaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: How to Win | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Trouble comes when a young Masai warrior takes a fancy to Patricia. This nymphet of the Carnivora is delighted. As she well knows, a tradition of the Masai once held that a tribesman could not take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lass Who Loved a Lion | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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