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Word: turnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syngman Rhee has fought the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. But as a pioneer in his country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The Politics of Patriotism | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...check by the towering new Kariba dam, hailed as the greatest piece of masonry in Africa since the days of the Pharaohs. The simple Batonga tribesmen who lived in the valley for centuries had-with difficulty-been evacuated to higher ground (TIME. Dec. 15). Now it was the turn of thousands of animals, in one of the world's richest game sanctuaries, and there were only eleven men and two boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Operation Noah | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

During her maiden voyage of a year, the 800-bed Consolation will make ports of call where invited, give native doctors a chance to learn the latest American techniques, train medical aides in such fundamentals as vaccinations and blood tests, take patients aboard for treatment, including surgery. In turn, American crew members will get a firsthand look at some of the world's ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Floating Hospital | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...answer their own phones and make their own business calls. Walter Koch, president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., sometimes gets up at night to answer his telephone, sometimes finds on the line a drunk who berates him for some imagined wrong. He has heard more than one turn and shout to his fellow tipplers: "Listen to me give hell to the telephone company president!" Says Koch philosophically: "It does them good to let off steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Redhead. Gwen Verdon, the Tenth Muse of Broadway, stops, starts, and saves this musical mystery show set in a turn-of-the-century London waxworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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