Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer can understand how a lawyer can represent someone who does not exist. The general idea is to prevent possible future offspring of living heirs from contesting the disposition of a trust fund...
Commenting on possibilities in general, Coach Floyd Stahl observed yesterday that, "Except for Wallace, it looks as if the squad will be made up almost entirely of new men. We'll probably be quite green but that situation is likely to exist at most of the other schools that we'll go up against...
Once again freedom of the press put the dictator on the spot. Snorted Rio's Diario Carioca: "The 'Additional Act' is stillborn." Snapped former deputy Dario de Almeida Magalhaes: "The 'Additional Act' . . . Additional to what? ... To a constitution which doesn't exist!" Sneered sober old-line statesman Virgilio de Mello Franco: "All the fascism that can be maintained has been maintained...
Last week a stormy Chamber of Deputies wanted to know when the U.S. would get out. Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha soothed its chafed nationalism with a sweeping challenge : "Foreign airfields must be delivered to us or they must not exist in Egypt." Behind his bravado was the Premier's knowledge that a joint Anglo-Egyptian company was in the making to operate Egypt's airfields after the war. With well-timed tact the British Government had sent King Farouk his handsomest birthday gift: a twin-engined, air-conditioned cabin plane from the Royal Air Force...
Some 15 years ago Benito Mussolini tried and failed to destroy the Maffia. He jailed its leaders in cages, marched them in chain gangs through the streets. But at last he had to concede: "The struggle against the Maffia will cease, not when the Maffia has ceased to exist, but when all memory of the Maffia has vanished from the minds of Sicilians." Last week the Maffia was making new memories which might keep Sicily in turmoil for some time to come. The Maffia had seldom had more volcanic soil to work...