Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special session of Congress, the galleries were packed by smartly dressed members of the Chilean Federation of Women's Clubs (FECHIF). Congressmen outdid themselves with promises. But promises were not enough for Mitty González, FECHIF's honorary president, or for her old friend Anita Figueroa, FECHIF's executive president. Warned Anita: "If the bill isn't passed soon, we'll have broken glass in the streets...
...Casual mention of tobacco proved disastrous to Dalton last November. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he prematurely let slip a part of the top-secret budget by jovially remarking to a newsman friend: "You might pay a bit more for beer, but I'm not putting any more on tobacco." Next day he admitted his indiscretion and resigned under pressure...
...often . . . Absorption in merely material things undermines the priestly spirit. It disposes us to appraise our people in dollars and cents [and] has made many a priest cold and cruel. It has made others vulgar and abusive . . . Many a time good Catholics would like to bring a non-Catholic friend to church, but they refrain from inviting him because they fear the effect of one of the tirades to which they are frequently subjected...
Previously, a student wishing to bring a girl friend to the game had to turn in his season cheering section ticket and buy a pair of ducats outside the all-male section. Thus, if he brought a woman to every football game in his four college years, he would never get a better seat than the 28-yard line...
Into the heart of the Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...