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Word: questionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev has without question made marked progress in increasing the supply of consumer goods since 1953, but the U.S.S.R. is not likely to "catch up" with the U.S. in seven years as Khrushchev promised, or in 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: COLD WAR: WHAT NEXT? | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...shortly seconded by Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski, who promised that Rockefeller would have a full slate of delegates in the April Wisconsin primaries. By week's end Rocky was no longer a possible contender but a candidate in the ring, and the only question left for November was whether he would campaign openly or drop out of the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rocky in the Ring | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...negotiation, and a main topic would be Germany-but not Germany's reunification: "There are no hopes of unifying East and West Germany in the near future, consequently one must proceed from the real state of affairs, from the fact that there are two German states." Answering another question, he magnanimously assured everyone that Russia will attempt no change in Berlin's status so long as talks continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Serfs Are Pleased | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Kick in Reserve. Explorer VI is expected to hold its hip-swinging orbit for at least a year. During that time it may illuminate problems of the universe from Einstein's theory on the curvature of space to the question whether man can really get past the Van Allen radiation belts by entering space above the earth's poles. At week's end a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported: "The paddle wheel is doing well. It is converting solar energy into electrical energy. The signals are coming in loud and clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Paddle-Wheel Satellite | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...performer who supplied the answers on NBC's late-night leap into popular psychiatry this week was Joyce Brothers, 31, the blonde psychologist (Ph.D. Columbia, 1953) and book-taught boxing expert who three years ago took the $64,000 Question and the $64,000 Challenge for $134,000. Possibly assuming that Jack Paar sets up an audience of insomniac worriers, NBC has tacked Consult Dr. Brothers onto the end of the broadcast day (11:15 a.m.. weekdays). Dr. Joyce, who warmed up with a daytime show for a year, is the network's new way of bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Night Thoughts | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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