Word: foes
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When Senior died, Junior stepped naturally into his shoes as Grand Old Man of Paris. Yet he continued as "the sworn foe of adultery" with increasing success until his late 60s, when he fell in love with Henriette Escalier, a married woman young enough to be his granddaughter. She became his mistress; after she managed to divorce her husband and Dumas' wife died, they were married, five months before Dumas' death (1895). "I have sometimes seriously thought of entering a monastery," he groaned sometime before his last marriage...
When the time came for cotton planting last spring, Arizona Farmer Jack A. Harris saw a fine chance to teach the Government a lesson-and make himself a quick profit (TIME, July 22). A foe of all price supports, he put his 1,600-acre Pima County farm into the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government check. Then he sidestepped the bank's purpose by sowing 4,500 acres of cotton in another part of the state. Even after paying an 18½? penalty a pound for growing cotton without an allotment (which amounted...
...boss of Italy's state-run oil monopoly (ENI), Enrico Mattei is a bitter foe of private enterprise. In 1957 he bulled through a punitive Italian oil law which put such restrictions on private oil companies that Gulf, the last U.S. firm wildcatting on the peninsula, got out (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Five months ago he got a concession in Iran in return for a promise to turn over 75% of oil profits, thus overturning the fifty-fifty pattern now in effect in the Middle East...
Died. Bertrand H. Snell, 87, longtime (1914-38) hardshell Republican representative from upstate New York, bitter foe of the New Deal as House Minority Leader (1931-38); in Potsdam...
...discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about wiping out malaria-with the old drug quinine, with new drugs such as quinacrine, or with mosquito-killing DDT. But malaria proved to be an unexpectedly formidable foe...