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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrewdly, the Afro-Asian bloc last fortnight submitted a bland resolution that did not mention independence or describe the rebel F.L.N. as a legitimate government. The French delegation, clinging steadily to its insistence that Algeria is part of France and hence none of the General Assembly's business, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Scaring Louisa May Alcott | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

While U.S. legislators worry about whether to put their in-laws on the office payroll at salaries up to $16,000 a year and how to use up all the room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Room for the Hon. Members? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Room for the Hon. Members? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The pattern was repeating itself throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, four Chinese businessmen were shot to death in public on suspicion that they had burned their shops to get the insurance. In Cambodia, Chinese residents were barred from 18 occupations, ranging from barbering to pawnbrokering to, curiously enough, espionage. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The crisis is one that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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