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Word: purgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Landlord Mentality." The prestige of each Communist cadre was made dependent on the number of landlords sent to the gallows. But in the overpopulated delta, the richest landowners had no more than two or three acres and a couple of water buffaloes. Even one-acre landlords became hard to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: Land of the Mourning Widows | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Fanatic Daniel Fignole suffered the disability of excessive ambition. Lunging too fast for power, he postponed the presidential elections originally set for June 16, then maneuvered to get himself a full six-year term without an election. He ordered the army to purge itself of anti-Fignole officers, demanded commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Fignole Falls | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Moreover, the Christian tool is no so suitable for contemporary patients as it was for the ancients. We are not an exact duplicate of the Alexandrian Academy. Our modern dilemma is not purely Hellenic, for we have already incorporated Christian elements such as the concept of time as going somewhere...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Christian Education And The Idea of a Religious Revival | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower Plan aid, the young King wrote a blunt letter to Premier Nabulsi: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Education of a King | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

When Hayari reminded him of his pledge not to interfere, the King pounded the table and shouted: "I'm King! I do what I want! This is my country. I will join the Baghdad Pact, if I want. I will invite Richards to come here, if I want. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Education of a King | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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