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Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When all the painfully gathered data are digested and assembled, they will give a cross section of the Antarctic Continent, which is believed to be a great saucer of rock with a center near the Pole pressed down by the weight of ice that it carries. The thickness of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last Grand Journey | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

A remnant of the Old World, the pushchart markets grew in the eighties and nineties, brought over by Poles, Russians, Chinese, Italians and Spaniards. Mott and Pearl Streets, Blake Avenue and Union Street became national boundaries; here was Warsaw, there Naples, and Shanghai was only two blocks from Kiev. The...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Market Days | 1/16/1958 | See Source »

The ordinary citizen has long since silenced his talk of freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Docile & Grey | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

The latest stratagem employed by the Harvard Dramatic Club to advertise their production of "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is a poster displaying Gothic arches. The arches lend an Elizabethan atmosphere and at the same time utilize perspective such that the word "whore" is barely visible to casual passers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

One clear gainer was Nikita Khrushchev, who had extracted Yugoslav recognition of East Germany in return for Tito's readmission to honorary membership in "the camp of socialism." By this maneuver Khrushchev had forestalled Konrad Adenauer's tentative scheme to try some Bismarckian diplomacy in Eastern Europe. Adenauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Bad Break | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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