Word: virginal
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...four-year hiatus in the '40s. wrought by the Axis attempt at world hegemony; he then notes, ironically, the institution's own subsequent turn towards imperialism. The small Brahmin-oriented school of the Depression years now infiltrates "forty-six states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico...the Virgin Islands [and] a record 66 countries...
...decade Kleist had proposed suicide pacts to friends. Finally, at 34, he found a woman who said yes. Henriette Vogel had a long, pointed nose, pockmarked cheeks, insolent eyes and cancer of the uterus. Kleist, who probably died a virgin, loved her as his angel of death...
...felt compelled to share my views. The author, Errol T. Louis, attacked Jeffrey Ferguson's letter to the editors, labelling it "sophomoric." This label was surprising, since the author felt no qualms about quoting a professor, who allegedly likened meeting Diana Ross" a Catholic about to meet the Virgin Mary." This is an offensive and puerile remark, at best...
...Such virgin territory may not exist. At a pair of Houston carpet stores, the former manager says that the owners, "two family men in three-piece suits," gave cocaine to employees who would work 18-hour shifts. Cocaine, in fact, is dangerously well suited to sales jobs. "You can do a lot of selling, a lot of talking when you're on cocaine," says Dana, 28, a South Florida man who would snort as much as seven grams (about a quarter of an ounce) a day while selling ? and to finance his habit, stealing ? building materials. "I didn...
Short untied Northeastern University Law School in 1973 and went on to practice law with two firms. At the time of his death, he was with the firm of Dudley, Dudley and Topper in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands...