Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detailed accounts of marital unhappiness. The canvassers were welcomed with coffee and cakes; the only grumbling came from businessmen who lost trade and had to give their employees full pay for the day. One thorough census taker waited in front of a maternity hospital to find out the sex of a child due to be born at the deadline...
Though viruses have no known sex. they reproduce themselves, apparently under the same laws of heredity as living creatures. Through mutations, they constantly produce new breeds. But some strains remain remarkably pure. The mumps virus, for example, has not changed in thousands of years; mumps symptoms are still about the same as they were when first described by Hippocrates (circa...
...years on the Herald & Express. A shrewd, agile reporter, she specialized in crime coverage. Her work was hard, tough and garish. She hated to be called a sob sister and frequently beat male reporters on their own ground ("I don't want any advantages be cause of my sex"). To preserve a news beat for her own paper, she once hid a suspected murderess in her home for several hours while her daughter entertained a party of Girl Scouts in the dining room...
...Many Moslems have only contempt for Western sex ethics, which they consider hypocritical. Mohamed used monogamy as a punishment, admonishing: "If you cannot deal equitably and justly with all, you shall marry only...
...Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed plot, which has not an irrelevant word or clue...