Word: bigly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check their swords outside. If a Member has a secretary (whose salary he pays himself), he applies to the sergeant at arms for a place where she can work. This might turn out to be in one of the palace's three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls...
...These accusations are all true," said the man called Durieux. "The Red Hand is proud to claim them. But we do not exult in murder. Our big regret is that innocent people have sometimes been victims of our counteractivity. But terrorism begets terrorism. The moment the Algerian rebels lay down their arms in complete surrender, the Red Hand will no longer need to exist...
Back in Manila, proudly wearing MacArthur's Medal of Freedom, Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club off Manila's Dewey Boulevard. He was also a generous spender who won friends by donating $15,000 to a polio clinic and giving freely to orphans, lepers, war refugees...
...British business interests with millions invested in Nigeria (correct: they distrust Zik). Awolowo, campaigning by helicopter, replied by calling Zik a crook and an oppressor. Both were under attack from the third major figure in the elections, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, ruler of the big, populous Moslem-dominated Northern Region (his symbol...
...companies demanded and got a fast payoff. For getting YPF's oil out of the ground and to the wellhead, the Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades group, investing $100 million, will get 70% of the world oil price until its investment is amortized. 15-20% after that. Five other big companies (Pan American International, Esso, Shell, Union Oil of California, Tennessee...