Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tazara wound across virgin bush, its gleaming China-forged rails resting on immaculate beds of crushed stone. The 300 bridges, 19 tunnels, concrete retaining walls, culverts and sidings amounted to an awesome engineering feat. Even the hundreds of footpaths that crossed the tracks were neatly marked (in English) with big railway-crossing signs...
...that I can express myself well in your ?our?Italian language [applause], you will correct me if I make a mistake." In fact, his slightly accented Italian was so polished that this remark was more a gesture than an apology. The new Pope twice paid homage to the Virgin Mary (a figure of extraordinary veneration in Poland) and referred to his new role as Bishop of Rome,* another bid for the favor of his newly adopted flock. At one point during the speech, a Vatican bureaucrat, caught off guard by the new Pope's departure from tradition, hissed "Basta...
...Golly gee whillikers," said the president of The Dartmouth when informed of his egregious error. "It takes a long time for news from the outside world to penetrate through the acres of unexplored virgin forests around out campus," he blubbered...
...suddenly blown off Shevchenko's pot-of-gold existence. Judy Chavez, 22, told NBC-TV that the Ukrainian was paying her $5,000 a month for her favors, had given her $14,000 for a Corvette sports car and taken her on a whirlwind vacation in the Virgin Islands. In all, claimed the kiss-and-tell brunette, she had received between $35,000 and $40,000, which Shevchenko had been given by "a high official in the CIA." Later, at a Manhattan press conference, she added that Shevchenko had paid her in sequentially numbered $100 bills. She plans...
From the outset of this marriage by convenience, man and wife try to get what they can out of each other. Julia shows Henry the finer points of gold prospecting, while he applies himself to Julia's education in bed. "You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes aren't clear," Henry assures her. "I don't want to brag a lot, but I have on occassion put a gal or two in tune with nature." Undaunted, the feisty Julia spits back, "I'm sure nature is grateful...