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Word: secretively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, June 7--The Big Four Sunday faced the fifth week of negotiation deadlocked over the future of Berlin but still convinced summit talks will be held. By general admission the foreign ministers' secret exchanges have reached a point of crisis...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Deadlocked Geneva Negotiations Over Berlin Go Into Fifth Week; German Urges Move to Summit | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...nine weeks Singapore's tropical nights have been loud with the sounds of political campaigning, bright with electric signs spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Bold Experiment | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...Secret Signs. The Melanesians took readily to European missions in the 19th century and expected Christianity to bring the "cargo." When this seemed indefinitely postponed, they began to believe that the white men were cheating them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cargo Cults | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...White men did not work; they merely wrote secret signs on scraps of paper, for which they were given shiploads of goods . . . Plainly the goods must be made for Melanesians somewhere, perhaps in the Land of the Dead. The Whites, who possessed the secret of the cargo, were intercepting it and keeping it from the hands of the islanders ... In the Madang district of New Guinea, after some 40 years' experience of the missions, the natives went in a body one day with a petition demanding that the cargo secret should now be revealed to them, for they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Cargo Cults | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Long entered John Sealy Hospital Saturday after a semi-secret flight from Baton Rogue, the Louisiana capital, in a National Guard plane...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Backs Summit Talks If Justified by Steps at Geneva; Gov. Long Receives Medical Aid | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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