Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research team found that 70% continued to have sexual relations up to age 70 - and some of them into their late 80s. The frequency showed a wide range, from four or five times a year to three times a week, with higher frequencies in the lower socio-economic classes. Main reason for discontinuance of marital relations: ill health...
...legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh Oct. 21 and affirmed six days later by the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court ruled solidly on the three main points raised by the union in its appeal...
...also recommended experimenting with relay service ("One waiter brings the pickled herring, another the borsch, yet another the main course, and so on"), so that no one would feel he was obliged to anyone for individual attention. This seemed hardly consistent with another of Literature and Life's ambitions-to speed up the service, which most of the 12,000 U.S. visitors to Russia this year discovered is a sometime thing (average breakfasting time: one hour...
...revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented display of small sports cars. In the main speech of the day, Marshal Malinovsky saluted Khrushchev's call for disarmament, added that since it had not yet been accepted, the Soviet armed forces must "maintain a state of high preparedness...
...Their main business is extortion. Prying protection money from taxi drivers, prostitutes, shopkeepers, housewives and small schoolchildren alike, they rake in as much as $350,000 a month. Cambridge-educated Lee Kuan Yew, becoming independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared...