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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Homer Ferguson's (Rep. Mich.) stab at the University and the Russian Research Center last June 24 belatedly brought a banner blast in the "Boston Post" yesterday...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Ferguson Blasts Center For University Policies | 9/29/1953 | See Source »

...Stab in the Back." But from Washington last week, at the most indelicate moment possible, came a thunderbolt that jolted Italy to almost desperate anger. Questioned about the U.S. stand on the five-year-old promise of all Trieste for Italy, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles implied that the U.S. might consider some other plan for the territory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Glowing Ember | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Glowing Ember | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing to pay. Even Polo, the unfrocked priest, is seen as a man whose 'whole nature is out of tune with his mistaken calling, a personality so split that the sharp edges are bound to stab anyone brought too close. As for Agustin, he can be seen in any land in any time, sure that he has won his way to a plateau of peace, only to discover that life does not respect bankrolls, and that it can set its traps in the heart even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good News from Spain | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...children. We loved him so much, and you know how much he loved us. He would be so frightened if I did not get to him quickly ... I couldn't leave my babies behind . . ."At the hospital, doctors stitched up Elizabeth Parsons' wounds, but she tried to stab herself to death with a safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A Most Exceptional Case | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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