Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most want quite a few things-and some women would rather not have them at all. By their votes, it was clear that most delegates want passage of the ERA, accessible and safe abortion, Government funding for day care, and a host of other measures promoting greater social and economic equality for their...
...committee heard from a Minneapolis police officer who had come to Manhattan to coax young Midwest prostitutes to return to their parents or to "safe houses," where they would be protected from their pimps. The officer had failed-largely because publicity about his visit took the girls temporarily off the streets-but he and a few of his previously liberated young streetwalkers told harrowing stories. Two examples...
...expression from the days of the voortrekkers, South Africa's Boer pioneers, who would drive their ox wagons into a circle to fight off Zulu or Xhosa attackers. Vorster's campaign slogan is the same today as it was in the last election, in 1974: "He made South Africa safe. Keep it that way." That rallying cry, which is also the central theme of Afrikaner history, is one of self-preservation, and it has always worked...
...collect his investment of $1,300 in win tickets and $600 in show tickets on Lebón. The cashier did not have the $80,440 payoff those tickets were worth on hand and told the bettor he would have to send to the track's main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat...
...said he had no idea of the cost of the proposed renovations, but that "the cost should be of minimum importance if the changes will help in a permanent way to make Mather safe...