Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 1,000,000 women held jobs in Red China's industry. Mao Tse-tung's air force today has a squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change the way of a man with a maid overnight. Even among Communists, particularly in the back-country cadres, the notion of equality between men and women was hard to digest. Some local party leaders, in an effort to preserve male superiority, took over the functions of parents and arranged marriages accordingly...
...down to, a questioner asked: Was it socialism, state capitalism, or what? The official smiled. "We have a good word in Arabic. It is eimar. It means when you finish a house or complete some worthwhile thing, it has a quality of progress. We call our program eimar." Resting overnight in his summer palace at Sarsange, shy, Harrow-educated Feisal found eimar's reception encouraging: "The people seem to feel that we are doing something important for them...
...competent advisers (including U.S.) telling him he was "going too fast with too little," Menderes introduced a budget one-fourth larger than last year's inflationary extravaganza. Items: a new 40% levy on all imports, a 70% sales tax on some 260 kinds of so-called luxury products. Overnight, prices shot up a further 30% to 40%, and even the hardiest Democrats began muttering in the bazaars...
Since late last fall, the night parking situation for students has been somewhat improved because the University has not ticketed automobiles parked on streets overnight...
...tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused to let the workers ride, on the grounds that tickets for all available seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses...