Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most disenchanted of Egyptians are the educated, the middle class, the few merchants who have survived the socialist regime, and the middle-to upper-level government employees. They have the pay packets to travel and to buy their luxuries on the black market. But they cannot get uncensored news, and miss "most of all an open society," as one said last week. They freely complain that their life was better in the long-gone days of King Farouk, blame Nasser for dragging them into a war in Yemen that was none of Egypt's concern, and were for the first...
...anything still secret in Bonn?" Konrad Adenauer once asked in exasperation. The answer then was nein - and it probably still is today. Both citizens and foreigners in West Germany are frequently accused of being spies. That jaunty journalist is charged behind his back with being in the pay of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. This hovering waiter is suspected of eavesdropping for the CIA. All government secretaries, of course, are thought to nip out at lunchtime with top-secret letters to be photographed by enemy agents...
...with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know in a well-run operation. Der Spiegel concluded that Sigl had actually been a double agent for the past nine years, working for the KGB while simultaneously being in the pay...
...sugar-worker protest movement that was formed seven years ago. A leftist activist named Raúl Sendic, who has been underground for years, is thought to be the leader of the Tupamaros. Economic discontent has undoubtedly helped the movement grow. A welfare state that assured its citizens full pay after retirement at the age of 55, Uruguay, once Latin America's richest nation, has seen its economy slide downhill for more than a decade. In 1967 alone, the rate of inflation was 135%, and the government ran short of retirement funds. Tough, recent measures taken by Pacheco Areco...
...through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...