Word: illicitness
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...saboteurs had been hired for 185 pesos ($92.50) by a pair of illicit lovers who were anxious to get rid of the spouse of one who was a passenger on the plane. Largo had taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in and tagged. He insisted on taking the box to the airfield. Between the office and the airfield he was met by Salazar, who transferred the tags to a similar box containing dynamite and a time fuse crudely made from an old timing device used in permanent-wave machines. The fuse, originally...
...compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...
Specific charges of adultery, illicit relations, and alleged lascivious acts have been brought by the court...
...been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent migrations...
...sensual experience but as a disturbing drive that leads people to behavior they can hardly control and but dimly understand. In one beautiful tale, The Babes in the Wood, O'Connor enters the shadow-world of painfully solemn, almost preternatural children who suffer from their elders' illicit affairs. O'Connor's bitterest stories are implicit denunciations of the sexual attitudes-or lack of them-of the prim, provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell...