Word: exploitatively
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...police to do anything about it. When a police captain was finally assigned to investigate the place, and found gambling going on, he promptly left to get help. But George blocked the exit with his 205-lb. frame and nobody even tried to escape. Next morning, the exploit made the headlines, and letters began to pour in supporting his one-man crusade. For a week he patrolled the gambling and red-light belts each night, but the underworld seemed to have gone out of business...
...liberal, which makes it difficult for him to fit into the surly, squabbling family which has resented his absence for the past dozen years. All four feel that things would have gene much better had he not fled. Each sees his return only as a means to exploit him for a selfish end. His wife wants to be a fine lady in a fine house, with a special room for seances. Amelia wants a dowry so that she can enter a convent. Pedro wants capital for a rice swindle. And Juan wants enough money to support a wife...
...unspoken purpose of M. Auriol's visit is to symbolize and exploit the recent upsurge of understanding between France and the U.S. The French President will have some good news to report, including: 1) the Assembly seems close to a single-ballot, majority-vote, solution for France's vexing electoral-reform problem, which will probably leave the Communists out in the cold; 2) the Schuman plan for Western Europe's coal & steel has been initialed by all parties concerned (see below...
...able U.S. military man stationed in Teheran estimates that mountainous Iran poses such terrain, communications and logistics problems that Soviet Russia would need 100,000 to 200,000 men to reach and exploit the Iranian oilfields. The stronger the Iranian army, the more soldiers Russia would have to draw from elsewhere, and the higher price it would pay. Improving the basically footslogging Iranian army would require relatively small financial assistance. A greater military gamble in Iran would seem justified...
...fighting men so honored are ist Lieut. Frederick F. Henry, 33, of Clinton, Okla.; Private ist Class Melvin L. Brown, 20, of Mahaffey, Pa.; Sergeant ist Class Charles W. Turner, 29, of Boston; and Major General William F. Dean, 51, of Berkeley, Calif. Of Dean's now famed exploit in besieged, burning Taejon, when he led bazooka teams against enemy tanks and refused to seek safety (TIME, July 31), the citation said: "General Dean felt it necessary to sustain the courage and resolution of his troops by examples of excessive gallantry committed always at the threatened portions...