Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...
Immediately the meeting perked up. A Mapai (Labor) member sharply denounced wages for extra wives, then sneered, "If there are any among us who are doing such immoral things...
...decision to keep open Lamont, despite the $10,000 extra cost involved, was made earlier this week by University officials after the Student Council had earlier reported that the high cost would probably force a summer shutdown. The report was made through the Council's Library Committee...
...extra cruising cars went on duty yesterday morning as Cambridge police set in motion a special crime prevention squad to combat holdup gangs in the city...
...Robbins, a 28-year-old stationery salesman and free-lance photographer, sometimes picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest...