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Word: companion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what was virtually a mass castration crusade. The government not only used a wide variety of economic incentives and disincentives to encourage sterilization, but also crude, strongarm tactics. These tactics alienated the teeming peasantry and urban poor who once supported Gandhi. The Youth Congress carried out sterilization and the companion slum clearance program with excessive brutality among the Muslims in Delhi, who saw the drive as an oppressive religious assault by the Hindus. Both the poor farmer and the menial city laborer viewed the aggressiveness of these programs as an attempt to destroy the large family, which they consider...

Author: By Vivek R. Haldipur, | Title: Ding Dong The Wicked Witch Is Dead | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...start, the Israelis and U.S. officials know that some big game is afoot, and they keep plodding along two or three steps behind Mastermind Keller (whose heavy German accent requires a great deal of unpersuasive explanation if she is to be passed off as an Arab) and her weird companion. Along the way Dern, who had broken down trying to make the transition from North Vietnamese prison camp to civilian status in the U.S., gets to do some nice psychopathic bits. Shaw has some weary and aging hunter routines on which to flex his thespian muscles. But the early action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Waiting for the Blimp | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told a companion, "I want to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rites of Winter At Bal Harbour | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Where Is Bing? One of Cowan's particular dislikes was Norman Bing, traffic manager at the Neptune World Wide Moving Co. Bing, who is Jewish, had suspended Cowan, a $6.11-an-hour helper, for refusing to move a refrigerator. "What would you think," Cowan said to a companion after one quarrel, "if I went into the office with my guns on, looking for Norman Bing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Season of Savagery and Rage | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Hssst!" hissed the minked Westchester matron to a furbelowed companion at New York's Grand Central Terminal. "Come with me. I know a place that has earmuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Survival: A Primer | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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