Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karl, president of Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"), sketched in the background of the now familiar Magic stock deals. Baker, he said, had tumbled to the potential of the infant home-mortgage insurance company as early as mid-1959. Naturally, he wanted in on a deal with so much profit potential. Though the company's stock had not yet been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Karl sold Baker 250 shares for $28,750; their market value later soared to about $400,000. Admittedly, said Karl, the legality of the early sale might...
...Tanganyikans of all races sauntered under sunny skies, staring at the great British warships at anchor outside Dar's tidy harbor or simply listening to the music. But the holiday mood was superficial. All through East Africa, worried government leaders were busy patching the flimsy fabric of their infant nations, torn by a week of armed mutiny and racial violence...
...butts to keep order in the unholy mess. Cesidio Lolli, sedate papal diarist for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, lost his temper after a manhandling by Arab Legionnaires. "You may be the soldiers of Herod," he snapped, "but please remember that I am not a Christian infant...
...whores are Devadasis, who practice prostitution in the name of religion. The custom dates back to the 3rd century, and, in its present form, Devadasi parents who seek a particular favor from their deity will vow, if the favor is granted, to make a prostitute of an infant daughter when she eventually reaches the age of puberty...
...have worked on a major revolution in meteorology. Covering vast areas from 400 miles up. the eyes-in-space have reported varieties of cloud behavior that had never been observed before. They have detected unsuspected relations between the cloud patterns and the weather on the surface. They have spotted infant hurricanes when they were hardly more than gleams in the eyes of the wind...