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Word: tersely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin is as unruffled under public criticism as he is in the quiet of his own home. He can hardly make a move without provoking tantrums in some political sector, where worry springs eternal that something he does will cost votes. Nevertheless, he has earned a reputation for disarming his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Banker's Banker | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

I'm about as far removed from Roman Catholicism as one can be (Unitarian), but I am a Christian, and was appalled with those un-Christly goings on in The Complaining Angel at the University of Notre Dame. Sis ters, get thee to a nunnery.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

The U.S. last week unveiled a colossal monument, carved from a mountaintop and scooped out of the surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Biggest Base | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Double Trouble. This wasting war costs France more than Indo-China ever did. With the U.S. paying 60%, the French share in Indo-China was $1,100,00 a day; in Algeria France has no outside help, and costs run close to $1,700,000 a day. In Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Wasting War | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Echoing Ring | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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