Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social insects,* ants are the most highly developed. As many as eleven castes stratify some ant species: even the simplest colonies contain queens, drones, workers, soldiers. The drone caste contains all the colony's few males, whose sole function is sexual. So is the queen's. But the workers and soldiers are all sterile...
...boldest move to date, OPM last week marched into the U.S. silk industry, became sole holder, buyer and seller of raw silk. Then it stopped all processing of raw silk (except on Army & Navy orders), put an end to all silk transfers from warehouse to mill...
Those destructive broken promises, and thousands more like them, were dropped by the R.A.F.-sole proprietor so far of the Battle of Germany. The R.A.F., which last September pulled the tight little isle out of a very dark corner, was now striking the first concerted offensive blow at Germany. It was no haymaker, but it was a blow that would be felt...
...Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom of charges that the union "is filled up with Commies." Amidst jeering and booing, Waiter Doyle first offered to stand trial himself on his unionism, then resigned from N.M.U. This would cost him his job, Curran promised, because the Ancon's N.M.U...
Portuguese newspapers spoke out plainly. Diario de Manhā, organ of Portugal's sole Party of National Union, observed sadly that Portugal had always regarded the U.S. as "one of the last irreducible bulwarks defending certain principles of law and international morality," but that the new U.S. theory of hemisphere defense "opens the way to the most perilous adventures...