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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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She is, of course, an irrepressible capitalist ("The Rolls is the only sports car I will drive in a Russian blizzard"), shows dangerous bourgeois-individualistic tendencies by riding her tricycle on the frozen Baltic, and utters subversive observations ("Everybody watches everybody in Moscow"). But she makes up for it by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kremlin Gremlin | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Author Thompson and Illustrator Knight recorded the international innocent after a 3½-week trip to Russia in February, can be certain that the book (75,000 copies in print before publication) will sell like blini. Author Thompson's humor is becoming strained, but whenever the text sags, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kremlin Gremlin | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

During the Thirty Years' War, a Krupp sold guns to Protestant and Catholic alike, and from that day to the end of World War II the family was rarely false to the Shavian armorer's creed. The blood-and-iron saga of Kruppdom, including its rise from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Gunpowder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

As President, McKinley almost always expressed himself in sonorous platitudes, but never did he come closer to stating a political creed than in a speech made when he was running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Mister McKinley, he ain't done no wrong But Sholgosh he shot him with an Ivor-Johnson gun For to lay him down boys, to lay him down.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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