Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...located alongside the public highway. Late in the afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
There are no jungles in Puerto Rico, unfortunately. The Federal Government has been spending thousands of dollars trying to reforest the island. One of the few virgin forests has been made a national reservation to preserve...
...Most famed of Mount Athos' religious relics: the camel-hair girdle which legend says the Virgin gave to doubting Thomas; pieces of the True Cross; the skull of St. Basil the Great; the brains of St. John the Baptist; the three gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense and myrrh...
...south, airline-operated cargo planes have toted thousands of pounds of U.S. currency (for payrolls) to Panama and Puerto Rico; tons & tons of blood plasma, surgical instruments, other medical supplies to Trinidad, Virgin Islands, other U.S. military bases in the Caribbean...
...friends and victims. Despite its shortcomings, it also sets a standard of bilish sharpness in social, psychological and self-analysis with which few U.S. writers are equipped to compete. A friend of Miss McCarthy's wrote her rom childbed: "Before I read it I felt almost like the Virgin Mary. . . . Now . . . I salute you from the bottom of the kennel...