Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
...ultimate purpose of the "invidious" nationality quotas, he declared was to perptuate the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic character of the American population. "If there was justification for this act in the xenophobia of 1924, there is no longer such an excuse," he said...
...Women, suggested Dr. Hinkle, meet less disapproval if they go to a doctor or take to bed when they feel ill. "Thus," he added, "the tendency of the American male to 'carry on, no matter what' may have something to do with the fact that women live longer...
Dubois, 49, had been quite a while in earning the hatred of the Cuban mob. Among U.S. correspondents covering Castro, few had written more warmly during the early days of the revolutionary regime (Castro, reported Dubois, "has a deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled, the more critical became Dubois, and Castro's Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring...
...right to buy 100 shares of American Motors at 37⅛ at any time before the option expires on Dec. 7. With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already a profit of more than $3,500 on the call. Calls for six months and ten days or longer are the most popular because any profit on a call of that length is a long-term capital gain, taxable at a maximum...