Word: conformable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result may be the flight of French brains and resources from North Africa. In the first few dizzy weeks of independence, French officials in Tunisia were curtly told to "conform with Moslem customs," e.g., eight hours of uninterrupted work daily, no long lunch hours, Friday instead of Sunday holidays. Even Premier Bourguiba could not resist saying, "When I see a French gendarme, I choke with anger." He fired all 2,500 French cops and customs officials and several thousand minor French bureaucrats, replacing them with Tunisians. As a result, 50,000 Frenchmen (approximately 30%) have left Tunisia for France. Several...
Faithful to the dogma of his masters, Stalin refused to recognize that prostitution flourished in the Soviet Union (he, says a recent Communist commentator, "professed the famous principle that if the facts do not conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism...
...blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
...budgetary practices of the Defense Studies Program conform to usual University practice and to the terms of the Ford Foundation Grant under which the Program operates. Moreover, the figures given in your article are incorrect...
...that the S is a full middle name, thus should not have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini: "I am not a magician, but a mystifier." General Electric Co.'s Wizard Charles Steinmetz described...