Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other words, one class of the population is being mulcted for the benefit of another larger class...
This bit of holiday intelligence from TIME-LIFE International's Paris office, plus the summer skimpiness of our own staff here at home, has led me to inquire where the members of our overseas staff are spending, or planning to spend, their vacations. Here, for the benefit of all of you who might like to go abroad but cannot, for one reason or another, are some of their replies...
...bull caught up with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
Speaking with Tongues. Each Sunday the Shakers gathered in meeting to receive the direct inspiration of the Lord without benefit of clergy. They executed complicated marches and dances, sang impromptu songs, some of which have been jotted down. Sample...
...thus increased. I give them doweries, and I marry them off to good Peasants who are very happy to have them. Thus they become wives at the same age as would have been the case if they had remained virgins, and I, on my side, have had the benefit of enjoying a great variety of women...