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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But one man was determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, as Lewin lolled in his penthouse in natty dark blue sports shirt and slacks, NBI agents burst in to haul him off to jail. He thought he could get out on bail easily-"Goddamit," roared Lewin through the cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The question in everyone's mind was what President Garcia would do. Lewin's friends in high places had saved him before. But Garcia was still smarting from last month's election defeat (TIME, Nov. 23), in which charges of corruption figured heavily. Would Lewin get off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In Nairobi a young British colonist shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The First White | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

When the time came to vote in Nigeria's first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve audiences in singing tribal ballads, on the plausible theory that enough was enough.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Democracy, Its Pains | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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