Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while pointing-out that the "progressive social legislation" in the Soviet Union had solved the problem of prostitution, nevertheless supported the unamended article, to help alleviate, in other countries, an evil "from, which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis argued that it was no use trying to suppress prostitution,, since, "as long as there are planets in the sky," there would also be prostitutes, and-at that, "of both sexes." France's amendment (if not Mrs. Warren's profession) was defeated...
...events in Asia and the world over are making him reconsider. India's leader could use some U.S. help to lift up his nation. "I am not going to that great and powerful country with a message to teach," he told Bombay officials last week. "I wish to learn what I think will be beneficial to India...
...voice resumed its complaint. "Fleas," it said loftily, "have not been known in Le Locle for many years. When the war ended, arrangements were made for French train crews to use the Swiss bunkhouse. Promptly the trouble began. First there were two fleas, then there were four, then they came by the hundreds...
...mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...
...crack Michigan's defense code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...