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Word: along (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched from roof tops. At Victoria Road, the two Presidents switched to a stately carriage drawn by six handsome horses. Under a gold-trimmed, brocaded red sun umbrella, Ike sat and waved, raised his hands to the crowds, and 60 colorfully garbed horsemen, former Bengal Lancers, trooped along with him carrying their traditional lances. When at last Ike alighted at the presidential palace, he turned in wonder to a flock of news photographers and said: "I hope you hard-boiled boys were a little bit impressed by this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Karachi, the streets of Afghanistan were thronged with shouting people, and everywhere-along the roads, and in medieval-looking Kabul-there was evidence of Russian achievement: the road to town was Soviet built, so were a silo and a milling and baking plant, so was a housing project. (U.S. aid has gone mostly for technical-assistance projects in the back country.) In his luncheon toast to the Moslem King, Ike stressed mutual "great spiritual values" and readiness to "advance the cause of freedom." The King, too, told Ike his troubles and seemed delighted that the President could understand his urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: American Image | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...crisis is one that has been faced before by the Overseas Chinese, an unassimilated group that has lived for centuries among alien peoples. As early as 300 B.C., Chinese merchants in clumsy junks coasted along the shores of Viet Nam. When European adventurers and explorers first made their hesitant way into Southeast Asia, they found, as Britain's Sir Thomas Herbert wrote in 1634, that in every major seaport were the "infinitely industrious Chyneses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: The Sojourners | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...those patients who have a neurotic need for pain-and this relief may last several hours or longer. Eventually, the patient can be taught to hypnotize himself whenever pain becomes unusually severe. The method relieves anxiety as well as pain, and has enabled several Johns Hopkins patients to get along with reduced doses of narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnosis for Cancer Pain | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...wanted to go to Mississippi all along," said Quarterback Perry Lee Dunn. "But I wanted to be sure. I'm glad it's over-I thought the pressure the last two weeks would drive me crazy. I haven't studied a lick the whole time." By week's end, Perry Lee was already talking like a Mississippi man, sniffed scornfully at top-ranked Syracuse: "Ole Miss could take them-they're just a bunch of fat boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Capturing the Big Gun | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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