Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody, of course, is hypnotized into gambling, and illegal gambling flourishes today because the customers are there. Once considered either the elegant pastime of the rich or the grubby escape of the poor, it is now virtually classless. Who plays which game? Dealers and other psychologists offer only rough generalizations...
One of Africa's new rebellions ended with a fizzle last week while the other showed signs of stubborn persistence and could go on for weeks. ∙ THE CONGO. The revolt against the Congolese government of General Joseph Mobutu by white mercenaries whom Mobutu himself had hired turned out...
All that expansion, along with overseas plants in Costa Rica, Guatemala, the Philippines and Austria, and office-supply outlets in 17 states and Canada, has enabled Boise Cascade to escape the lumber industry's traditional dependence on construction for prosperity. Its sales (now 60% derived from pulp and paper...
Sophisticated Arabs often explain that in the Arab world, everyone understands that exaggerated language is not to be taken literally and that the West must not take it literally either. Still, elfyza (verbalization) decisively shapes Arab thought and action. Arabic tends to act as a compensatory mechanism, producing a world...
Many will think that in labeling this a "Moderate Solution" I have made an unhappy choice of words. Moderation in these days is not in high repute. The term itself, in some degree, has come to imply pompous and comfortable and well-padded in-action. Thus, it rightly arouses suspicion...