Word: purvey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would continue to provide prison terms of up to six months for pornographers who purvey to children. In Minister Thestrup's opinion, however, the rektor's observation about the normal reaction to pornography applies equally well to adults and is the assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly...
MISS U.S.A. BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). June Lockhart, Pat Boone and Art Linkletter purvey the prime-and well pasteurized-pulchritude of this perennial, live from Miami Beach...
Even if the New York Times isn't really any livelier than it was before its extended opportunity for rest and rehabilitation, it is still a welcome addition to the local papers. Once again we have the Times to purvey all the news that's fit to print and the Record-American to provide the rest...
...enterprising businessman, Africa is the continent of extremes: nowhere is industry less developed; in few places is there more eventual need for it. A United Nations purvey out this week estimates that industrial production in Arab, black and white Africa will double in the next ten years, and quadruple over the next 20 years. But all this is atop a very small base. Per capita industrial output would have to increase 25-fold for Africa to catch up with the current levels in industrialized nations...
...selling prepackaged, high-protein emergency food supplies, and the Mormon church is distributing a two-week supply of emergency rations, packed in a neat metal cylinder, to all its members, along with the urgent suggestion that all good Mormons stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing Co.'s "home survival kits," containing 49 items, from canned water to playing cards. Perhaps the most ghoulish shelter article is the "burial suit," a $50 polyvinyl plastic wrapper for" anyone who dies in a shelter. It contains chemicals...