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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drafted into a road race for glamorous types who sped for publicity from Rome to Sicily, bosomy Cinemactress Anita Ekberg teamed up with willing Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...only give in Khrushchev's speech was purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Time to Go Home | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Marijuana Fudge. The old nostalgia is sometimes dangerously near burning down as Kanin writes of the antic hey-hey, but the mood is so pleasant and pervasive that the bemused reader is willing to forgive Author Kanin for taking a few choruses too many. The people are alive-the pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Beat | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The opposition Socialists tried to keep the fight alive. "The German people are no longer willing to watch us go back to the darkness of the rule of one man," said pudgy Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer. Erhard sat silent and unsmiling on the government bench while Adenauer taunted the Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: How to Win | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Pastor Smith views the resulting friction as threatening "the unity of Baptists on this continent more seriously than the Civil War." And he blames the cold uncharity of Northern Baptists for the situation in the first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Baptist Invasion | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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