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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Sincere. Three years ago Laureano put up moderate Mariano Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLUMBIA: God's Angry Man | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Laureano, his angry face as red-veined as a banknote, met this challenge personally. "When Conservative lips proclaim peace," he told the nominating convention last week, "they do so with sincerity. Our hearts are not poisoned with hateful desires to destroy the Christian order and replace it with Communist tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLUMBIA: God's Angry Man | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

In Hollywood, where actresses traditionally shun fleshy publicity poses once they become stars, pressagents gingerly asked 42-year-old Barbara Stanwyck to get into a bathing suit for some photographs. Barbara beamed: "I've been perfectly willing to pose for cheesecake art, but nobody ever asked me."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Slickers & Roadsters. Benefactor Duke had put up an initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Cohen was able to sum up her experience: "What a headache being lucky can be!" Soon after the first night's excitement, the Cohens learned what it was like to be continually annoyed and worried. After a tractor was delivered at the apartment, they took steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Winners | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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