Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these cool, verdant hills, where the air is crisp and forests are virgin, studying with the several hundred girls in this liberal and progressive college, there recently arrived a Harvard man, a fugitive from the Dramatic Club. One of ten kept men amongst several hundred beautiful women is Robert F. Keahey...
Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
...Four days of sweat, bad food and virgin jungle. A bushmaster bit me in the left index finger-had to shoot the end of the finger off to avoid dying...
...left out one item (except by implication) in your list of articles, which the Navy still insists shall be made from virgin metal [TIME, Aug. 3]. I refer to brass hats, another particular in which a change of specifications is apparently long overdue...
...Almost all Army & Navy specifications call for virgin metals, though secondary metal would often do just as well. The Navy still insists upon top-grade primary aluminum for cable cases, fire-control boxes, etc. In copper, there is an actual surplus of secondary metal on the market, while painfully short virgin metal is still insisted upon for belts and insignia, laundry equipment, whistles, zippers...