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Word: run (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that respect for freedom, love of freedom, is instinctive in men, we do think that the systematized order that is observed in Russia is a step backward, not forward. Now, Mr. Khrushchev . . . is always saying that history is going to decide between us. I believe history, in the long run, is going to decide in favor of the free system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Long March | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...obsessed by dark fantasies of power and gods. He had been married, divorced, had remarried the same woman and been divorced again. He had cowed his daughter Zelda with abuse and with ugly accusations of promiscuity. He had fathered a son by his stepdaughter Betty Jean, who had run away in fear and shame. And in all the world-in some tormented way-he loved only the memory of Betty Jean and their son Dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: That Man Has Dynamite | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...road last winter, Britain's fastest, most expert drivers have pretty much throttled down out on the highway, with one exception: Countess Attlee, 63, wife of and longtime driver for former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Lady Attlee, whose cool daring behind the wheel gave newsmen a run for their copy during election campaigns, had a bit of bad luck, cracked a collarbone in a collision at a North London crossroads known as "Danger Junction." It was her fifth crash in four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...explained Choreographer Jerome Robbins. "dress, eat, think, talk and walk differently from any other people. We also dance differently." Just how differently, London balletgoers learned last week with a shock of excitement and surprise. To British eyes, Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A., in town for a one-week run, was the most rousing explosion of music and movement to hit Piccadilly since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Diaghilev | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...needed before currency stabilization proved too big. But by 1956, the year Jacobsson took over, the Fund got its first big chance to show what it could do when Egypt seized the Suez Canal, then blocked oil, food and other vital supplies from Europe, and touched off a disastrous run on the British pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: World Currency Cop | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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