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Word: sat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls of rice. "What's the matter?" her relatives asked. "Don't you like pork?" "Oh yes!" the little girl replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Famine | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Invitation Extended | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Monitor (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Premiere of NBC's marathon (eight hours the first time; thereafter, 40 hours starting Sat. 8 a.m.) catchall weekend show of news, music, comedy, sports, theater, weather, time signals and assorted gimmicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Belmont Stakes (Sat. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Fred Capossela calls the annual $100,000 classic at Belmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Star Parade of Bands (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Count Basie and his orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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