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Word: bisect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson does not consider present policy a failure. The Communists, after all, have been thwarted in their attempt to isolate Saigon and undermine it politically. They can no longer hope to bisect the country at its waist along Route 19. Their third and most ambitious effort, to take the northernmost provinces by storm, has been blocked at great expense to Hanoi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The Pressures Mount | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Claudine was charged with "an outrage to public decency," which carries a rap of up to two years in jail. The publicity-seeking beach concessionaire, who had paid Claudine $7 to bisect her bikini, was also haled into court. Their lawyer argued that the law defines the "outrage to decency" crime as "exhibiting one's sexual parts or making obscene or lascivious gestures." He called Claudine innocent on both counts. "Bare breasts are not an erotic but an alimentary symbol," he said. As for Claudine's pingpong, was it more "lascivious" than the nightly show at the Folies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Topless Triumph | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...Labour party approach, society is divided economically into the working class and the business class. The Conservatives bisect society politically into the governing and the governed, the leaders and the followers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Distinction Plays Major Role In British Political Party Structure | 10/23/1961 | See Source »

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