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Word: willful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Off with your Taxes. In his new aggressiveness, Macmillan early in the week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

For the ordinary Italian worker, whose weekly salary all goes for rent and pasta, the only hope for retirement is a pension -meager at best and by no means automatic. If he is privately employed, his fate is in the hands of a monstrous, Kafkaesque government bureau whose paper-shuffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Social Insecurity | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

At week's end, while Lepori dumbly awaited judgment, other Defense Ministry personnel officers were checking their records to see whether De Virgilio had worked the statutory 19 years, six months and one day. If not, his wife and children, like Lepori, will have no legal right to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Social Insecurity | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The dingy Baptist church near the Kremlin, one of the few churches still open in Moscow, was jammed with some 1,500 Russians, most of them of the same generation as the big, intense man who stood in the pulpit. The preacher: touring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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