Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universal greeting called out to females from 15 to 50. "They took all the girls," mutters one British war veteran who on the whole liked the Americans. And indeed the walls outside American barracks were lined every night with panting couples twined in a last embrace before bed check. William D. Kendall, who represented the town of Grantham, complained in Parliament that "it is unfit for a woman to walk unescorted" there because of the "unconcealed immorality" of the G.I.s. Others of course had a different opinion; some 60,000 British women eventually became American war brides...
...books helps these people study. Reserve books, after all, circulate overnight at the longest. I guess they mark up a book and then reread the sentences that glow in the dark. Or perhaps it is common practice to ask for the copy they have marked up next time they check the book out. I saw someone do this once, the person behind the desk handed it to him without blinking...
...focus of the murder trial. Morgan was 17 and married when she met Bloomingdale in 1970. He paid for her divorce and remained an unstinting patron through her two other brief marriages. Morgan received up to $18,000 a month in allowance from Bloomingdale. She was usually paid by check through one of his companies, in return for her companionship and "therapy" for what she called the aging millionaire's "Marquis de Sade complex." Morgan even accompanied him on many overseas trips, often following him in secret when Betsy Bloomingdale was along...
During a security check at Mancotal--a strategic dam on the road to Pantasma--a boy-FSLN militiaman poked his head in to the doorway of the bus and smiled. In peacetime, he and thousands of other Nicaraguan youths might be playing soccer or baseball, but our government's backing of the Contras, makes this vision of childhood, especially for those who live close to the Honduran border, virtually impossible...
...officials tell a different story. According to them, full-time students aren't even allowed on the University payroll. "There's been some error made," says Marcia Mintz, assistant dean for financial affairs. She says that Melendez must have "slipped through the channels somehow. There is usually a cross-check against various lists...