Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center is collapsing, my right retreats, the situation is excellent, I shall attack." That mild-mannered ex-school master, Premier Guy Mollet, pulled out his copybook last week and took a timely lesson from Marshal Foch at the 1918 Battle of the Marne. Deserted by his coalition partner, Mendes-France, under withering bombardment from all sides for his handling of the North African crisis, Socialist Mollet marched out to demand a vote of confidence from the Assembly...
...Christian Democratic Party Boss Amintore Fanfani has steadfastly refused any such "opening to the left" with Nenni until Nenni breaks his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. But at week's end another partner in the Christian Democratic coalition, the Saragat Socialists (who broke with Nenni nine years ago on the very issue of his Red allegiance), suddenly accepted Nenni's invitation to talk things over, while stoutly insisting that this did not mean any change in their determination to avoid all contact with Nenni's Red allies...
...fact that the bill itself was as full of leaks as a wicker basket. Not to go into effect for a year, it provides only mild penalties-six months in jail or a maximum $27 fine -for "soliciting openly in public ... or embracing or seizing a prospective partner." On procurers, who roam the Japanese countryside offering poverty-stricken farmers cash loans in return for the indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans (madams): up to ten years...
...many another had no intention of quitting her calling. For the enterprising individual, there was still future enough in such establishments as Tokyo's New Opal Hotel, which runs a daily ad in English-language Tokyo papers: "Here is the place you pay only 800 yen with your partner to stay overnight including one free drink. Each room with double-sized bed and radio...
SecurityMeasures.Gangling,sharp-nosed Reporter Wally Turner, 35, and his partner, thick-spectacled Bill Lambert, 36, are such familiar prowlers along Portland's corrupt trails that the underworld knows them as "Fishface and Bugeyes." The latest trail took them over thousands of feet of magnetic tape-70 hours of eavesdropped conversation-supplied by Underworld Kingpin James ("Big Jim") Elkins, an ex-convict who bankrolls Portland gambling and after-hours drinking joints...