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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"You Are Independent Now." Next day De Gaulle arrived. Pausing en route in desert Mauritania-poorest of the Community's twelve states-he had answered his hosts' independence talk by saying: "You are independent now. The Community is going to change and develop, but we shall make the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH COMMUNITY: Organized Friendship | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In its usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Canceled Stamps | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The pattern was repeating itself throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, four Chinese businessmen were shot to death in public on suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The European imperialists regarded them as rivals. The Spanish in the Philippines were nearly wiped out before they rallied to slaughter 23,000 Chinese at Manila in 1603. At midcentury, a Chinese exile and pirate named Koxinga drove the Dutch from Formosa; later the Dutch retaliated by wholesale murders of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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