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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disarray. The U.S. chose not to bat its reply back by return mail to Red Square, instead considered Khrushchev's letter carefully, probed for weak spots. The problem: the letter plumped into a scene of disarray of Western allies, of disagreement about important details in official Washington. France's De Gaulle was holding out for his private parley, all but refusing to come to the U.N. at all, and trying fruitlessly to rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Week of Words | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Mohammedan custom allows, his second wife. They were married at Mosul in 1939, lived in Nuri's household in Baghdad, and fled with the rest of Nuri's family to Palestine when a German-backed army coup momentarily toppled his government during World War II. On their return to Baghdad, their son Ahlam was born in 1942. Though at first opposed to the marriage, Nuri Pasha used to dandle little Ahlam on his knee, kept his picture on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Grandson of Nuri | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...crowd. Under the word L-U-C-K-Y appears a series of numbers. Questions come marked L3, C5, Y7, etc., each worth that number of points. Sample stumper ("verified by the editorial research board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"): "What famous World War II general said 'I shall return'?" Home audience participation is invited by two of TV's living dolls, always present but rarely busy (they also serve who only stand and undulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Parlor Pinkertons | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Variety's review, only the network brass sounds satisfied. "I have read about how the next season's television schedules will be 'stale and pedestrian,' " says NBC President Robert Kintner. "If by these words the critics mean that programs that the public likes will return to television, then the schedules will be stale and pedestrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And Next Season? | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...year program aimed at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where Chris may get a crack at Australian Stars Lorraine Crapp, Dawn Fraser and lisa Konrads. Beginning this fall, Chris will get up every weekday at 5:30 a.m., get to the pool by 7 for a go-minute workout, return for two more hours after school. Evenings, she will concentrate on homework to maintain her straight-A average at Los Gatos High School in the hope of entering Stanford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blonde Prodigy | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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