Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation." The appeal brought only one response, but an important one: in Madrid, Jesuit Father José Maria Llanos, spiritual counselor of the Falange Youth Front, reprinted Father Garcia's circular in the Falangist daily Arriba, followed it up with a stinging column accusing Spain's upper classes of favoring prostitution as a means of protecting their own virtue. "The best people," said Father Llanos, "want to assure the beautiful innocence of their sons and daughters by means of a very original barricade, one constructed of the souls and bodies of thousands of poor women." Concluded Llanos: "This...
While Amory was speaking his piece in Manhattan, the duke's secretary in London issued a stiff-upper-lipped statement: "Mr. Cleveland Amory . . . has now given all the assistance the duchess felt was of value, and his employment has therefore been terminated." Next day, when Amory's lament was gleefully spread by London's anti-Wally press, the duke's secretary announced less politely: "The Duchess of Windsor wishes it to be known that it was on the unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall...
...Upper Montclair...
...spread to the whole institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond...
...process of meeting the girl you have chosen is easier than it feels. First you catch her eye, and she draws her upper lip away from her teeth to show she notices you. Then you ask a girl nearby who that "girl in the corner" is. She smiles and says in a loud contralto...