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Word: communiques (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ominous Specific. From Moscow came the most remarkable reaction of all. For more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Other Bomb | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Politically, Quirino smilingly settled for a bland White House communiqué assuring the world that he and Truman had "discussed measures for the reinforcement and development of Philippine economy." The State Department showed only polite interest in Quirino's murmuring about a Pacific Union against Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Empty Hands, Full Heart | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Next day, they started to pour down. Santiago's newspapers carried a long and bitter communiqué from the Apristas. Ambassador Miró Quesada renewed his protest to the Chilean Foreign Ministry, then replied to the Aprista communique with a 16-point message of his own, declaring no less than six times that the Apristas were obviously Reds, since their party symbol (like that of Communism) is a five-pointed star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: War of the Roses | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Newsmen cooled their heels for two hours while Chandler mulled things over with National League President Ford Frick, New York Giants officials, members of Chandler's staff and a stiff upper Lip. Finally, he called them into his office and issued a terse communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Springs the Lip | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor!" -and proceeded to suppress the story. Mary Vetsera was buried secretly. As for Rudolph: "His Imperial and Royal Highness [has] died suddenly of heart failure," said the Court communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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