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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnesses that their names would never be revealed. Convinced that if Communist agents within the U.N. got hold of the witnesses' names, relatives still in Hungary would suffer reprisals, Bang-Jensen held on to the documents, refused to obey U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's orders to turn them over to the U.N. Secretariat. After a long and bitter wrangle, Hammarskjold finally agreed to let Bang-Jensen destroy the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Magnificent Obsession | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...What is against the spirit of Camp David are acts which turn a brave little country into a moaning colonialist slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Spirit of Camp David | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed to the original aims for which Keir Hardie and his cloth-capped trade-union radicals-none of them socialists in the doctrinaire sense of the continental European Socialist parties-founded the British Labor Party at the turn of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Inquest at Blackpool | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...furor that began four months ago when four U.S. sergeants stationed at Izmir were arrested on charges of currency black-marketing, and two in turn accused Turkish cops of torturing them (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The General's Cleanup | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...That one right there." Bombarded with hate-U.S. propaganda from radio stations and newspapers for three weeks since their last flag-planting invasion of the Canal Zone, students and slum dwellers were lusting for violence. Despite last-minute attempts by the wealthy clique that runs the country to turn off the hatred, the rioters' target was again the U.S. and its canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Fanned Flames | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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