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Word: think (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a foreign ministers' conference apparently vetoed, would the U.S. be willing to go to a summit conference to talk with the Russians? Said the President: "I think it would be a very grave mistake . . . unless there was some kind of preparation so that the world could recognize the progress made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Test of Nerves | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Another assumption which enjoys wide currency is the argument that a divided Germany threatens us with World War III. Such reasoning, I think, overlooks the basic source of tension in the world. World Communism, and world Communism alone threatens us today with world war. Germany can be no more than a pretext for war. If war comes this year-God forbid-over the Berlin crisis, it will come as a deliberate, calculated stratagem of Red aggression. Berlin is just another phase of their long-term plan to subjugate the free world. The Berlin question is just a pawn in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Debate on Berlin | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Anecdotal Playwright | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

Daniel S. Cheever '39, lecturer on Government, maintained that the Russians' primary motive in the Berlin crisis is to prevent the atomic arming of West Germany. "However, the West could only accept such an agreement if sufficient inspection controls were included, and I don't think the Russians want this," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors See Russians Striving To Keep Missiles Out of Germany | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

...that his contracts are so favorable to the unions as to be piratical to the owners, they nevertheless grant, "When Jimmy Hoffa says something, you know he means it. If he says his boys won't strike, they won't. Look at the auto unions if you don't think this means anything...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Labor Pains | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

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