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Word: torches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days it was uncannily quiet, then at midnight the blacks hit back with an animal roar. Propelled by a rumor that their Fignole had been put to death, they burst out of the slums, put the torch to eight buildings, sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince were full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Fignole Falls | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...tried to rush it, George Bernard Shaw might have succeeded in giving the English-speaking peoples a phonetic alphabet. Says the Smithsonian Torch, a slim house organ put out by the Smithsonian Institution for the museum set: "We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Drim Kum Tru | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...noble, Yet while the scientists seemed to be concerned about the social implications of their research, they have taken a rather short-sighted view of the political results of their protests Democrats and Free Democrats have used the effects of broadcasted atomic fears upon Germany's people as a torch in their campaign against Adenauer. Moreover, the move has threatened to nullify the Government's plan to reduce manpower by some 300,000 men and re-form Germany's seven divisions into highly mobile units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arma Virosque | 4/20/1957 | See Source »

...Torch Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Pete's sake, why does everybody have to refer to fortyish Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood as "middle-aged"? Speaking for myself and all us girls in this interesting age bracket, my spread has not changed status one bit in the last 20 years; furthermore, I am not now and never will be middleaged. CONSTANCE SANDERSON Brockton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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