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Word: preparedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came for Truman's full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disenchanted Evening | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

When the subcommittee asked Merck & Co.'s President John T. Connor for an explanation, he was well prepared. The big companies, said he have different selling costs for individual sales and bulk sales to Government, could not stay in business if they sold to everybody at the same price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The Double Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Threatened by a war it was not prepared for, India this week looked forward eagerly to the arrival of touring President Dwight Eisenhower. Indians appreciated the fact that of the eleven countries Ike is visiting, he will spend more time in India-four days-than in any of the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Six nights a week, shapely, 36-year-old Lydia Lova takes her third-from-the-left place in Paris' famed Folies-Bergère chorus line, prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Meeting in Manhattan last week, 2,000 delegates to the 64th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers were fully prepared, as usual, for a series of speeches attacking high taxes. At the opening session they were jarred out of position by IBM President Thomas J. Watson Jr. He told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Jarring Note | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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