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Word: refugee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his monastery in the East, the Doctor of the Western Church felt the reverberations of the barbarian attacks on the crumbling Roman empire in Italy. This hurt him deeply. As a Roman citizen, he looked on Rome as his home and the Eastern peoples as unsatisfactory foreigners. During a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Irascible Hermit | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

His heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: H Is for Horse | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

Books that have been banned, either in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or throughout the country, are harbored in the "Inferno" for obvious reasons. All works on contraception are sent to the Cage, since they are banned in this State. The unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Widener 'Inferno' Guards Choice Collection of Erotica, Miscellany | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

Into the Streets. On the appointed day, gunfire and cries of "Viva la revolution!" pierced the early-morning quiet of La Paz (pop. 350,000). M.N.R. partisans invaded public buildings, set up barricades, passed out guns. Seizing La Paz's most powerful radio station, they fooled at least part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Blood-Drenched Comeback | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

"We Are the Law." Picked officers took downtown Havana's Cabana fortress. Others seized naval and air centers. From these bases they took control of police stations, communication centers, the labor palace. The rest of the island-there were only two regiments outside Havana-fell soon afterward. The young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dictator with the People | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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