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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

For 2½ years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

But Judge Ryan felt differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tainted Source | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Seventy | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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