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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should not expect military or political alliances in return. (I suppose that is what your correspondent meant when he wrote that I did not think foreign assistance would shape loyalties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARIFICATION | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

Christmas is a happy time. Students leave for vacations and return to their homesteads in Mobile or Boise or Newton. Most people leave Cambridge and leave it as early as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Tidings | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

...RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE (256 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Messner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The First Battle | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Peyton Place, the sequel bears all the marks of a book whacked together on a long weekend. The original novel required readers interested only in literary privy-peeping to wear out their forefingers spelling through long passages devoted, with some success, to such matters as scene-setting and characterization. Return has little more scene-setting than a limerick, and the characterization is negligible. The meat of the book is as strong-flavored as bear steak-"Jennifer lay awake in the dark, smiling. She touched the welts on her thighs, running her fingers over them hard so that the pain burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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