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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accept." The West was talking about a foreign ministers' conference on Germany for May n, he said with a grin, and "I'm giving away a Soviet government secret, but I'll tell you anyway that we accept." Of course, he added with a patient shrug, Russia would rather have a summit meeting first: "It would be better if the heavyweights-the chiefs of govern ment-undertook to clear away the enormous debris that has accumulated in international affairs. Let them shift the boulders out of the way and start removing the rubble . . . But if such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: That Certain Smile | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...officially tolerated, members have been squeezed out of factory jobs and often find it difficult to get apartments or pay increases. But from their neighbors the Socialists get quiet encouragement. "Our fellow workers, the vegetable woman, the people down the block, all smile at us and come to tell us their troubles," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Inside Job | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine rough-string rider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...story that the U.S. was planning to explode atomic bombs over the South Atlantic. Some scientists told Baldwin that if he printed the story, the furor might well force the U.S. to stop the tests. But it could also be argued that Baldwin had a duty to tell the American public in advance about an event that might have serious international implications. Baldwin decided to stay mum.* Says he simply: "It was a question of whether or not you were going to hurt your country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & the Secret | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...when the Times hit the streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that at 12:35 a-m Snyder belatedly issued a four-paragraph bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & the Secret | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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