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Word: two (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two Soviet ships, Tobolsk and Krilyon, steamed into Japan's Niigata harbor to pick up the first load of 975 repatriates, who had marched to the embarkation center waving red flags and singing The Song of Kim II Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Place Like Home | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Since then, according to refugees from Sinkiang who have made it to Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Troubles in Sinkiang | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Less generously, the rebels shot two Cuban "counterrevolutionaries" one dawn last week in the first executions since June by the firing squads that have put 557 Cubans to death this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hero's Trial | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Which, with two TV speeches, built his tirade time for the week to 15^ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hero's Trial | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...while Peru's Prado drew cheers, his navy brass was quietly concluding a deal to buy two cruisers from Britain for $4,000,000. President Jorge Alessandri of neighboring Chile, who earlier had assailed the "ruinous competition" in weapons, observed that "it is not a logical attitude to propose a conference and then to buy new arms." And despite Frondizi's stand, Argentine officers were in Washington purchasing 28 F-86F Sabre jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS FOR SOLDIERS: Latin America's Biggest Waste | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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