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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurrection have fought courageously. Let the peace of the brave come and I am sure that all the hatred will fade away. I speak of the peace of the brave. What does this mean? Simply this: let those who opened fire cease fire and return without humiliation to their work and their families. The old warrior's procedure, long used when one wanted to silence the guns, is to use the white flag of truce. And I say that in this case the combatants would be received and treated honorably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: DE GAULLE'S APPEAL TO THE REBELS | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...there were subsurface rumblings. Some of Sarit's own supporters in the Assembly had gone off on freeloading junkets to the Soviet Union. Many of Bangkok's dozens of newspapers were accepting Red bribes in return for attacking Sarit and the U.S. The embittered aristocrats who dream of re-creating the Thailand of the past were giving covert support to the Communists and other opposition leaders. Premier Thanom, who had not wanted his job in the first place, seemed to be floundering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Coup de Repos | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...tradition, the life story of the Latin American dictator goes something like this: win power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Collared by the Cops | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...defend himself. In answer, Rojas issued a defiant communique: "I cannot recognize this farce, conceived in hate, vengeance and vain haughtiness." As the hour of his appointment with the Senate passed, a few followers in the town house tried to convince Rojas that the glorious days of power would return. "Mi general," shouted one, "the people are with you." Rojas smiled, nodded and hugged himself: "I am enveloped in the constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Collared by the Cops | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Eliot, after completing Murder in the Cathedral, was determined to write a verse play with a contemporary theme and a contemporary setting. The drawing-room setting he contrived was not only fitted for traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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