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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 9:05 p.m., Ferraud "felt a terrible cracking" under him. Hastily grabbing his child from bed, he sprinted with his wife for high ground. Moments later, Malpasset Dam burst in shards like a flower pot, and a wall of water 25 ft. high swept down the valley at 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

It was daylight before any organized rescue work could get under way, as helicopter crews from the French carrier La Fayette (once the U.S. carrier Langley) joined gendarmes, soldiers and dazed survivors in searching for the dead and missing. It was not easy work: from the broken stump of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Six nights a week, shapely, 36-year-old Lydia Lova takes her third-from-the-left place in Paris' famed Folies-Bergère chorus line, prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

All her life Lydia wanted to dance. Even before her family moved to France from Poland when she was seven, she was already attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Ever since General Ne Win took power in Burma 14 months ago, he has worked conscientiously at clearing Rangoon's garbage-strewn streets, cracking down on Communist rebels in the northern jungles, improving the balance between the nation's agriculture and light industry. But he was one soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Clean Sweep | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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