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Word: redness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Red Crescent. On the third day, still stung by the discovery that an Arab street mob could jeer his name, Nasser in Damascus ordered up what his press unblinkingly called "the largest Arab anti-Communist demonstration ever seen." The crowd had been whipped up by Friday sermons in the mosques. It was given a martyr's pageant of its own, similar to the one in Baghdad: a lugubrious cortege for a wounded Iraqi captain who had fled Mosul when the revolt failed, and died in a Damascus hospital. Nasser crowed that "the banners of Arab nationalism" would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Death to Kassem! | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Communism is paradise! The people's communes are the ladder to heaven!" proclaimed the tattered signs nailed to the masts, but the words carried a special irony for the fishermen who manned the fragile junks. Last month 1,000 of these junks had sailed into Macao harbor from Red China, their crews and passengers ostensibly bent on celebrating Chinese New Year in the 6-sq.-mi. Portuguese province. As usual, the men swarmed ashore to jam the smoky teahouses and to try their luck at fantan. But when the long holiday was over, less than half the junks sailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACAO: Ladder to Heaven | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...moved another stride toward the day when man will blast into space, and return, gliding through the atmosphere perhaps on red-hot wings to land at a chosen spaceport. At California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, a ponderous B-52 jet bomber lumbered down the runway, its engines spouting black smoke. From the rear it did not look right; it was lopsided, with a goodish-sized object hung unsymmetrically under its right wing. As the bomber broke ground, it listed slightly from the dragging weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Lift-Off | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Colored Wigs. Wackiest novelty since Hula Hoops is a gamin-style wig of acetate yarn that comes in 17 shades, including blue, green, bright red, and purple. Manufactured by David & David of Brooklyn, now selling 4,000 a day, the wig can be styled further by the owner. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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