Word: quids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign power. At the 15th anniversary celebration of its revolt against Portuguese colonial rule last week, Luanda circumspectly kept Cuban troops and Soviet advisers out of sight. Intelligence sources, meanwhile, said that the Cuban troop airlift has been halted for two weeks. Some observers speculated that a secret quid pro quo had been worked out in exchange for the South African withdrawal...
South West Africa over the past two months. O.A.U. headquarters in Addis rejected such a quid...
Throw left and right and tertium quid o'er--Ring in Harvard's happy Thermidor. With a wreath to the Left and a wreath to the Right, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...
...starts at $8,500. Most remarkably, if postal workers were paid at the same rate as Government employees, there would be no postal deficit at all this year. Moreover, postal employees have also written into their 1973 contract something quite unusual: a guarantee against their being laid off, a quid pro quo supposedly for their pledge never to strike. That promise, however, has not prevented them from threatening to strike when their present contract expires on July...
...consumed with lust, to his own shuddering surprise and chagrin, but he does not bridle his concupiscent deskes. He issues a quid pro quo: Isabella's virginity for her brother's life. She is appalled and rather loftily tells Claudio to be resigned to his death. She is not what she seems, for to a Christian no defiling of the body can remotely affect the integrity of the soul...