Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak, U.S. vacationists are on the move -about their own country and on record invasions of foreign shores. The travelers, according to reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...
...months the French government in Paris has been guilty of an immobilisme in Morocco, hoping that the new treaty with neighboring Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...
...door of a state school or mental institution by entering difficult areas of child therapy. Its formula : a combination of dedicated social workers, psychoanalysts and house staffers giving treatment in an informal but disciplined family atmosphere (there are no bars or locks at Ryther). The center has become the model for 20 other residential-type child treatment centers in the U.S., attracts social workers from all over the world for training...
Since the days when he was enrolled on the staff at stately 400-year-old Diddington Hall, Rodwell Patience had been a model manservant. As an apple-cheeked footman, he was up at dawn each day to oil the lamps and trim the wicks. No faithful servitor in the vicinity could pad about with such noiseless efficiency or efface himself with such dignity as Patience, and he was a dab at removing the pips from his master's grapes before setting them on table...
...develop Texas oil lands, made a comfortable living at it, although he never became the big oil baron that he might have been. Through the years, he never lost his urge to prospect for oil. When he was nearly 90, he was still setting out in his old model A with pick and shovel, to probe among the rocks...