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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basic questions about NATO are kept from public eye by "security," but despite the professional optimism of press-agents, a grey area of ambiguity of authority exists as to what would happen should a real emergency occur. But NATO members seem fearful of examining these awkward truths too closely. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The Indispensable Argument | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The crumbling walls of its Angevin castle still keep guard over Lundy's only landing place, whence the medieval barons De Marisco once dispatched their men to raid the coast of England. It was from Lundy that the elegant 17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUNDY: Untidy Little Island | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

In the Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

As tension in Windhoek mounted, a beer-hall picket knocked over a can of malt beer that had just been bought by a woman customer. The woman called the police. Within minutes, police and an angry crowd of several thousand were scuffling. The blacks set the beer hall on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good for Kansas City | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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