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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after he left Damascus for Beirut, was addressed to a former Syrian M.P. who had acted as a Damascus go-between: "Come immediately. Building fraudulent. Refused give us anything. Give money back to original owners. Our situation is dangerous. Umm Khalid is sick and angry and asks our immediate return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Father Ibrahim's Plot | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...return for the right to establish its bases on Spain's strategic soil, the U.S. has so far given Franco $650 million in military assistance and defense support, another $264 million in economic aid that has helped build dams, factories, highways and housing. Critics have objected that the U.S. has thus bolstered Franco's position over the Spanish people. Franco retorts that Spain is the most staunchly anti-Communist of all the U.S.'s allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: In Business | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...course saddened. But as Prime Minister I can only believe that justice must take its course." At week's end the Vatican itself seemed ready to trim its tone to the nation's mood. "The time has come," said Osservatore Romano, "to allow things to return to equilibrium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Passing Storm | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...allowed her "pretty, rose nightdress," instead got "a veritable sack." Under regulations barring money and jewels, she could not even keep her religious medal. "Pay for eight days," said the cashier. "If she doesn't last that long, you'll get the extra money back." On return visits, Micheline Vernhes had to wait outside the gates, often in the rain; Peggy sobbed hysterically each time her mother had to leave her alone after the brief visiting hours. After eight days, Micheline Vernhes could stand it no longer, took Peggy home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peggy | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Arsenic & Old Cake. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Policewoman Audrey Amos posted a notice in the Central Police Station cafeteria advising the person who had taken a slice of peanut caramel cake from her office to return it because the cake was part of the evidence in a food-poisoning case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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