Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters must recommend for adoption by the union's locals a "model code of bylaws, or model provisions for inclusion in the bylaws, to be drafted by the monitors...
Dominique was given to making salades (trouble), to pouring into slot machines money that should have gone to Bill, even to talking of giving up her trade altogether. Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could...
...Parisian press, hundreds of motorists drove out to the spot where Dominique had spent her last agonizing moments, and an ice-cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France's second system of justice, with sentences...
Last February Neuberger returned to the Senate after a gallant, five-month struggle with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16). True to the unpredictable Morse code, Neuberger's friend-turned-enemy offered "a very warm welcome and assurance of our sincere pleasure over the fact that my colleague has returned...
There is a strong scent of social science in Venice West, and Lipton relates that all beatniks possess paperback editions of Margaret Mead. Love among the far out is casual and kaleidosexual, but just as among the savages of Samoa, there is a code. Said one beard, explaining why he rejected a girl's advances: "At the time, I was going with my wife." Beatniks prefer not to work, and when forced to, try to find employment suitable to their talents -such as deodorant testing for cosmetics firms. Shoplifting is only a stopgap...