Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Nixon and party-including Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (one of the three Negroes in the House) and Walter A. Gordon, Negro governor of the Virgin Islands-flew into Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, to represent the U.S. at ceremonies marking the transformation of that British colony into the independent Commonwealth State of Ghana...
Pure Heart. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Yugoslavia, of Albanian parents, 47 years ago. At 18 she went to Ireland to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and six weeks after being admitted, set sail for India to teach in the order's schools and convents there. After 20 years of teaching, she asked permission to work among Calcutta's poor...
...much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands"-a pat on the back for those who had responded to Khrushchev's call two years ago. But the biggest setback since the last Supreme Soviet meeting was in foreign affairs. The coexistence policy, a successful operation a year ago, had been literally shot to pieces...
...repaid the kindness with a never-ending stream of spiritual advice, giving his time generously in private audiences to the village women when their husbands were off at work in the cane fields. He even went so far as to honor the village by singling out one robustious young virgin as worthy of sharing a god's bed. But if the godly sadhu could be generous with his favors, he could also be terrible in vengeance. When one old villager dared doubt his authenticity. Raghubaranand simply ordered the man's own family to drive...
...have been Virgin...