Word: flirts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delinquency was up 20% over last year in Los Angeles; in New Orleans it was up 56% among Negroes, 5% among whites; in Boston up 15%. Said Dr. Mary Fisher, head of Vassar's child-study department: "There are thousands of 12-to 15-year-old girls who flirt with men in uniform. Educators should do something about them. They are war casualties...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...
...months and years ahead Britain's Government might move to the left, or even flirt with dictatorship, for the sake of war efficiency. But nothing could un-British the British. Among other indications, infallible spring, with the inevitable, incurably English bulbs, brought out the inevitable, incurably British rhymesters...
...husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls and skinfuls of U.S. boomtime living, Manhattan Prohibition and Naziism; watched one son grow dully dependable and the other flirt with Naziism; and in general covered the uneven 20th-century scene with all the mountain-goat agility and twice the aptitude for human pleasure and pain of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd (TIME...
...Sprightlier female vocalizing may be heard on Que Puntadas (What a Flirt), sung by Lucha Reyes, a personality girl who works for Victor...