Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront...
...Francisco, in Lake Success, we protest, as one voice, the veto. Yet each country, in its turn, reserves it for its own benefit, invoking intangible sovereignty. Are we going to build international democracy upon national dictatorship...
...stereoscope had been a favorite gadget. Viewed through its wooden lorgnette-style holder, special, double photographs looked solidly three-dimensional, and entertained the young & old on dull Sunday afternoons. Last week the Navy announced that it was perfecting an improvement: a single photograph which appears three-dimensional without benefit of "viewer...
...first the union paid for the three-month course (by dues, benefit dances and bullfights). Then the Government chipped in. Teachers work free, recruiting their best students to help, on the "each one teach one" theory (TIME...
...ally of Russia. Says Masaryk: "There is no iron curtain in Czechoslovakia. . . . The door to the West is wide open. . . . We go along with Russia on the big European political issue, but that does not mean we are going to compromise on other things. . . . Give us the benefit of the doubt...