Word: maidening
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Three years after this maiden venture TIME'S editors put the controversy it aroused to a vote of TIME'S readers. They-and there must be many of you still among them-were 20 to 1 for footnotes. So TIME'S footnotes tiptoed on. Today they fall into three general categories: 1) learned, 2) explanatory, 3) anecdotal...
...directors of the new British North Borneo Company, moved into a mud hut and kept a sharp eye on the natives. The Company set up its own Governor, cabinet and judges, to carry civilization into the island's steep, wild mountains. Largely because of a maiden's grisly caprice, civilizing Borneo proved a tremendous task...
...legend went), a beautiful girl of the proud Dyak tribe persistently scorned a young warrior; desperate as a procrastinating shopper on Christmas Eve, he finally hit on the idea of bringing her a human head. His beloved tenderly declared that this was indeed a gift worthy of a Dyak maiden's heart, and consented to be his bride. Ever since then, the men of Borneo have been passionate headhunters...
...Hulme was his wife's maiden name...
...always spent his money like water, had paid off all their debts during the war, his suspicions grew darker. He raked up a hundred and one details of Corinne's past which now suddenly seemed sinister-her peculiar childhood memories, the time she had insisted on signing her maiden name to an important bill-and then hysterically refused to admit that she had done it. And what had her psychiatrist meant when he talked, in his mysterious jargon, about Corinne's "association with a type of love which was nonutilitarian, not productive of children...