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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the Communists turned from their Quemoy bombardment guns to the bargaining table, the President said, the U.S. would be ready and willing to negotiate toward "a solution that could be acceptable to all parties concerned, including, of course, our ally, the Republic of China."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Clear Line | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

B.B. himself was away at his summer home at Vallambrosa, where he was to be met later, but his spirit reigned nonetheless. Closest to his own heart is his proudest achievement, indeed the only one in which he is willing to acknowledge true pride, his remarkable and extensive library. He...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Outpost in Settignano | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Readers of the famed "Agony" (personal) column in the Times of London had never before seen anything quite like this: "Social consciences wanted. The improvement of contraceptive methods is a vital social problem . . . New methods can only be proved by couples willing to risk pregnancy. We urgently want volunteers for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unfertility Rites | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Anxious to test the tablets scientifically, Wright rushed back to England to find volunteer couples willing to risk pregnancy with only the tablets for insurance. Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unfertility Rites | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Crater Desire. In Amsterdam, after Radiation Scientist Tibor Helvey announced that he was looking for two men and a woman willing to simulate living together on the moon for eight days, women volunteers outnumbered men volunteers four to one.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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