Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women Being Murdered. The first effect of the marriage law, just as the Communists hoped, was to release a huge portion of the population from the feudal bondage of fathers and husbands to serve the new state in work cadres. The women, among other privileges, got the equality of the hoe and the lathe. By 1953 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...
...appropriations for foreign military weapons, as well as for aid calculated to ease the defense-cost burden of military allies should henceforth be part of the Defense Department budget. (But the economic portion of military aid will still be administered by the International Cooperation Administration...
Some people interested in the matter, therefore, feel that the University may choose to honor a benefactor who would pay for the House, or a considerable portion...
Neither the big businessman in Boston nor the worker in Seattle seemed to realize that only a puny portion of foreign aid is for genuine economic assistance (in the sense of "plows for Afghanistan"). In the $3.8 billion mutual security budget for the current fiscal year, for example, only $385 million is listed for such purposes. Nearly all the rest goes for military aid and "defense support" and, as such, is more defense than aid. No one said much about cutting defense. Who wants to be against strength...
...deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic failure, a breast may be missing, with only a nipple present; in such cases, Surgeon Gillies has built a mound of tissue under and around the nipple. In one case, he notes: "With marriage and pregnancy, the diminutive portion of breast tissue increased greatly and enabled lactation to occur through this new breast...