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Word: smidgin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indicate domination of all Communism. The communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There was perhaps a smidgin of truth in a Russian commentator's remark: "The common objectives and tasks of our two countries are greater than our differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Somewhere in Rumania | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four. Its object: to train "rising young leaders" in non-Communist nations to help solve their countries' most urgent social and economic problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Birthday Fellows | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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