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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Re the steel strike, I would like to quote La Rochefoucauld: "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Dipping-ln. In Seoul, Korea, after a crowd and a lot of cops gathered while a suspect re-enacted the holdup of a watch store, six cases of pocket-picking were reported.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

As the nation's most damaging steel strike dragged toward a court-enforced halt, as the television industry sagged under disclosures of mass deceit and wholesale perjury, newsmen were primed with some uncommonly philosophical questions at the President's press conference last week. Essentially, they were asking: Has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

The President did not think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

"We Have Gone Soft." Reminders of man's ignoble qualities were falling on the public ear with increasing frequency, not only in sermons, books and editorials, but in plain-spoken political speeches. Economic Man, his wants largely satisfied for the time, was no longer the main concern of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Issue of Purpose | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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