Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amenities as running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
...must vote. "You don't want a man to operate on you who just skims his medical books," said Judd. a former Mayo Clinic fellow. Nor does Judd want to spend time and energy on a strenuous re-election campaign in his recently reapportioned district, which formerly con sisted of safely conservative South Min neapolis and now includes the heavily Democratic labor wards on the city's north side. "I don't know that you can get elected in the present situation unless you are willing to work day and night for it," he said...
However, Perkins said, "I was pleased by the inventiveness and the vitality shown by the Committee." The Master added that he had not expressed his own opinion--pro or con--on the Committee's original recommendations to Trottenberg...
down. He and Jacques, he said, were not merely seeking adventure. "On the con trary," he insisted, "I wish to show that the bathyscaphe is a dependable scien tific device in which the father of a family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...
...U.M.W., a federal district court de cided, had used its power to discriminate against a small company (Tennessee's de funct Phillips Brothers Coal Co.) in favor of the big West Kentucky Coal Co., con trol of which had been acquired by Cleve land Industrialist Cyrus Eaton with mon ey lent him by the U.M.W. welfare fund...