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Word: pressinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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SCARCELY any country on earth is less fitted to serve as a pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAOS: THE UNLOADED PISTOL | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Sugar-Coating. How much all this would benefit the majority of Ethiopians was open to question. The nation's most pressing need is land reform. But the Ethiopian Orthodox Church owns 40% of all land, and feudal landlords the rest, and the Emperor is helpless to take on either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Plums of Neutrality | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

George Orwell once observed that the death of the soul, Western civilization's renunciation of the belief in immortality, makes politics immensely the more serious; it could be the spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate: "a higher history than all history...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Pinless Diapers. Diapers fastened with tabs of Velcro, a nonmetallic. Zipper-like fastener made of tiny nylon eyes and hooks (TIME, Sept. 8), will be put on sale by the Riegel Textile Corp. of Manhattan. Adjustable in size, the diapers can be secured by pressing two tabs together. Price: $3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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