Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women, at 18 for the married-on the amiable theory that marriage is an indication of maturity. Only one of 40 Senators spoke out against the amendment. "This," cried Aquiles ElorcLy, in a faint echo of the anticlericalism that used to keep Mexican politics at a low boil, "hands the country to the church." None of the other 39 lawmakers seemed to fear that Mexico's predominantly Roman Catholic women would rush out to form an all powerful, pro-clerical party...
...parkland made available by vertical concentration, no crèche on the 18th floor, will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with staff warnings: "Observe the three Bs-be brief be bright and be gone. On all communications to me and to our staff, observe the fourth B-boil it down...
...said "when," not "if"), South Korea wants to resume the war to unify Korea. The U.S., he insisted, had committed itself to joining him in resuming the war. The U.S. had made no such flat promise. On the other side of the globe, the British rose to a gentlemanly boil when they read that John Foster Dulles would not agree to a bargain that admitted the Chinese aggressors to the U.N. Dulles also said, before taking off for Korea to visit Rhee, that the U.S. would walk out of the Korean talks after 90 days if they were getting nowhere...
...years before World War I, plot and counterplot reached a rolling boil in Eastern Europe. In Russia, the famous double spy, Eugene Azeff, paid agent of the czarist secret police, took command of the terrorist branch of the revolutionary underground, and in between the writing of his reports to the police, masterminded the assassination of the Czar's uncle as well as two attempts on the life of the Czar himself. To this day it is not clear which side Azeff was really working for; perhaps Azeff, a great technician of conspiracy, never knew. In Austria-Hungary, Colonel Alfred...