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Word: think (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimness came with the sudden realization by pickets and public that management had its teeth clenched. Setting a post-World War II precedent for a major industry, the steel companies let the negotiations sputter to an end without making even a minimum money offer for the workers to think about. The steelworkers had offered to settle for the same terms they won in 1956 after a 36-day strike: a three-year contract with a yearly raise of about 15? an hour, plus a cost-of-living escalator clause. Management's counteroffer: either 1) a one-year extension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

ILLINOIS' PAUL DOUGLAS: "While I do not argue with the total figures in the President's budget, I think a great many savings could be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Moment of Truth | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Swedish seaside resort of Saltsjoebaden, near Stockholm, as 79 delegates from seven nations-Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal-gathered to put the finishing touches to their own free-trade association, known familiarly as the "Outer Seven" (though some of its members think the name invidious). Recognizing, in the words of one British official, that "we simply cannot let the Common Market Six build up walls we may never be able to scale," the Outer Seven have decided to get their commerce into step with the Common Market. Thus their draft plan envisions a tariff reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Getting in Step | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...King's policy is neutrality in Arab affairs, cautious friendship with the West, hatred of Israelis and Communists. If Americans on the scene often think their motives are misunderstood, they can take some comfort in the fact that no other foreigner fares much better. An active Soviet embassy, with rooftop antennas obviously monitoring Wheelus' frequencies, is allowed to operate, but it shares the frustrations of the U.S. in trying to cope with Libya's fierce pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Poor & Proud | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...patently special case of his own contriving as the type for sexual relationships in the real world; on maintaining as the order of existence that women initiate such relationships and men are "the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey"; on reiterating that what we are accustomed to think of as love, or infatuation, or lust, according to the circumstances or our temperament, is really God or Nature or the Life Force making purposeful experiments in eugenics. But this can be dismissed as another example of Shaw's tendency to exaggerate, to generalize, and to dogmatize about matters concerning...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

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