Word: guinea
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...switch I could shut out the greedy murmur of little men." ... "I love this dirty town." ... "My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in 30 years." ... "Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river." ... "He's got the morals of a guinea pig and the scruples of a gangster." ... "Here's mud in your column!" ... "Starting today, you can play marbles with his eyeballs." ... "This syrup you're giving out with, you pour over waffles, not J.J. Hunsecker." ... "I'd hate to take a bite out of you - you're a cookie full...
GREAT BRITAIN Food for Sex A survey by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and British charity Save the Children reported that locally hired officials in camps in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia were demanding sexual favors in return for food and medicines. The preliminary report claimed that the abuse, mainly of girls between the ages of 13 and 18, was "extensive" and that children living in camps without their parents were the most vulnerable. The study, of more than 1,500 adults and children in the area, found that almost 70 aid workers from 40 agencies were involved...
...confident that the Board’s ability to decide on these cases in a fair, consistent and well-informed way is going to remain pretty high,” he said. “I don’t want people in these cases to think they are guinea pigs. It’s wrong to think the Board itself has moved in a different direction. This is simply a change in how we gather information and convey it to the Board...
...Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language and unique history...
...decision to make. They heard on various radio reports that “Americans were coming!” Edgar’s mother, originally from the US, discovered that an US jet carrier boat would be arriving the next day to transport all American citizens to the nearby Guinea. With RUF leaders declaring that no one would be allowed to leave the country because the entire state was on lock down, the Edgar family faced a perilous decision. “I really didn’t want to go”, Edgar recalls. “But deep...