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Word: till (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the police and the U.S. embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Incident In Bogota | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...till year's end did the Pentagon finally draw up a priority list of weapons and component parts-the thousand & one supply items which had become another major bottleneck holding up the final assembly of weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great Gamble | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ninth Hour | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves." To which the third man, oM Grizzlebeard, retorts contemptu ously: "All you young men talk folly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor, Poet, Grizzlebeard | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Whether the Council passes any legislation to allow such parking will not be known till after January 7, however. The survey was referred to the Council's Committee on Ordinances, which must consider all matters before they finally become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council Gets New Parking Bill | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

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