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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by four smoothly concocted "eyewitness" reports, Trud, Russia's official trade-union journal, landed a punch on United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther. Three of the "witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

In a sense, he stayed something of a child himself. The frequent bassi (festivals) of his capital and the boat races on the Mekong River were always irresistible, and fishermen rowing by the palace often stopped to listen to the music from the King's khen pipes. But five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Long Reign | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

The Finns, who defended their independence through two gallant, losing wars with Russia, have also found it hard to stand up against their giant neighbor in time of peace. Last year their President Urho Kekkonen shocked many Finns by letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: The Wary Neighbor | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Invited Guests. Both assessments were the product of the big new role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Marines Are Back | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

As the pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Thin & Pinched | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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