Word: sues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with all his own soap operas (there are too many), listens in only when driving his car. He seldom brings work home with him, spends plenty of time with his handsome wife Camilla (who often accompanies him on business trips) and their three children: 17-year-old Nancy Sue ("Bitsy"), now a Bryn Mawr freshman; Barbara Ellen, 15; chunky Malcolm Neil, 10, who McElroy describes as a "champion consumer...
Your Aug. 24 story of Captain Austin King's use of salad oil to solve his hydraulic problem over Seoul in his C46 recalled the time our 6-24, Sweet Sue, took a German flak burst amidships early in '44, which pierced several small holes in our hydraulic lines...
...Israel's Knesset (Parliament) passed a bill which makes the rabbinate the sole body authorized to officiate at marriages or divorces in Israel. This means that all the ancient restrictions of the Torah are the law of the land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...
...books he savagely dissected early American capitalism-in a predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world...
...debate over MacArthurism went straight to the heart of the war in Korea. To win a decisive victory, U.S. commanders knew that they must make China sue for peace. But this could only be done if the U.S. i) kept heavy pressure on the Chinese, and 2) accepted the risk of war with China's ally, Soviet Russia-a risk which may have been very small...