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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What if the Russians reject the West's package? The British, believing that something will still have to be done about Berlin, suggested that the U.N. might be called in. In a speech to Copenhagen students last week, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold carefully warned that "practical considerations alone" would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Ready with a Plan | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Houphouet first became the idol of his people shortly after World War II, when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE IVORY COAST: ViVe | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Amid all the speeches, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, speaking for a worried Administration, supplied the week's straightest talk. Said he: "Higher profits or wages, resulting in higher costs and prices that people won't pay, mean that some people may pay with their jobs. Workers and management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More! | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Our Town's first act survives largely because of audience interest and trust in the Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Our Town | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

Probably the best solution, from the standpoint of efficiency and in the interests of gracious living, would be a staff of professional waitresses. Radcliffe has no money for such an extravagance, but there is an alternate solution--a system under which all students would pay a slightly higher price for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Waiting Game | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

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