Word: franker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from decreasing the value of the Seminar, however, the greater congeniality among the students from 16 European countries has made possible a franker and loss hesitant approach to all aspects of American life and to questions of American policy in Europe...
...Panama's modern-minded younger generation, life can be very nais indeed. As a starter, señoritas may pay a visit to what they call a biutiparlor for a champu and a maniquiur. In a franker bid for a picop, some apply lipstic from a vaniti-queis right out in the street. Depending on how much of a bigchot she attracts, a lucky girl will eat jot dogs and aiscrim, go to the muvis, drink jai bols at a cocteil parti, or perhaps even go for a dip in the boy friend's suiminpul...
...girls, who used to be the mainstay of the humanities, are going in more for home economics and the newer vocational majors (recreation, social work). Meg Rothermel, the 1948 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is planning to be a social worker. Dean of Women Louise Troxell finds girls much franker and surer about what they go to college for these days: "To get a job, and a husband, and very possibly both...
...stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have his tongue in his cheek. One of his supporters, Ojukwu...
...Francisco recognizes two limitations on sovereignty: the world organization itself and the regional systems. In our franker moments, we have always recognized that we belong to a regional system and that our safety lay in that same Colossus of the North, who was bound to protect us against aggression from outside the hemisphere. Now the world is split into legalized spheres of influence, and at San Francisco we were actually in a position of fighting for this regionalism which, in a way, we have long opposed...