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Word: reese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The speakers stressed that feeding Biafra was not an impossible task. Dr. Michael K. Rees, a physician who served in Biafra, said, "What Biafra needs most now is money for food and medicine. Biafran doctors are very competent but they need supplies."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biafra Can Be Saved, Group 'Says at Rally | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

Pray for Rain. The inspectors were no more understanding at the First State Bank of Dodson, which simply followed that Panhandle community in decline, or at Big Lake, an oil and ranch town on the flatlands of West Texas, where billboards exhort passers-by to "pray for rain." Horace B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Carefree Collapse | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

During his eight-month trial, Gandar argued that he had corroborated the stories before publishing them and spoke of his paper's disclosures as being "in accordance with the role of the free press throughout the world." Surprise Witness William Rees-Mogg, editor of the London Times, praised Gandar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Freedom in South Africa | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Women, to be sure, can also be something of a financial drainees- pecially if they have a perfectionist turn of mind, like my friend Mrs. Guinness, who feels that "for a fur coat to look proper, it must be completely new." The quest for youth and beauty is the female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON BEING VERY, VERY RICH | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Unlike France, thinks Rees, England has lacked a novelist of the stature of Proust to make the homme-femme a credible figure in English society. Nor does he expect a rash of revelations to follow his disclosure. "This is a frightfully sensitive subject," he says, "and those people who are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: Homosexuality Between the Wars | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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