Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through Baghdad's crowded streets and souks last week a strange funeral procession wended its way, picking up bystanders, small boys and stray dogs as an avalanche gathers sticks and stones. At the head of the column, Arab women wailed and rent their garments, their faces plastered with clay in sign of mourning. Behind came the pallbearers, carrying a coffin that contained the body of Kassem Shakhnoub. That morning, at a cement plant where Shakhnoub worked, police had broken up a strike called by the Communist-led union. In the midst of the confusion, Shakhnoub had keeled over...
...platoon of wealthy, powerful ultraconservatives (among his top supporters: Johnson & Johnson Board Chairman Robert W. Johnson, Publicist James Selvage), Morris has blanketed the state with billboards and buttons, bought 392 one-minute radio spots a week. Incumbent Case's modest campaign is run out of a rent-free Newark basement by nonpaid workers...
Australia's Labor Party is further rent by a Catholic Action group led by a secretive Melbourne lawyer named Bartholomew Santamaria. who is dedicated to fighting Communism in the labor unions. In a land where half the union membership is Catholic, Santamaria's activities have stirred up cries of "clerical intervention." and Australia's Catholic hierarchy no longer actively supports him. But the result has been to split the Catholic vote to Menzies' benefit. Six weeks ago Evatt at last stepped down from party leadership, to be replaced by the more moderate former Immigration Minister Calwell...
...rent is due, My hope is dead...
...judge would obligingly sentence her to the Bait al-Taah, the House of Obedience. Under this dread practice, the police would arrest the woman wherever they found her-on the street, in her parents' home-and hand her back to the aggrieved husband. He could then rent living quarters, usually below her usual standards, and furnish them minimally, having to satisfy the court that it is "between good neighbors." There he could keep her locked in her room, as in a prison...