Word: yen
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...Working Her Way Through College (Warner) poses a solemn problem: Is a burlesque queen (Virginia Mayo) with a yen for culture entitled to a college education? The answer is yes, mainly because of the brave battle for academic freedom waged by Theater Arts Professor Ronald Reagan. "Hot Garters Gertie," as the bump & grind artist is known, is saved from expulsion when Professor Reagan threatens to expose Board of Trustees Chairman Roland Winters as a wolf in sheepskin clothing who once gave Gertie a mink coat...
...Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like a stomach full of broken glass." When words fail him, Mike swabs beach-tar stains off Mollie's feet and kisses her "long thin toes...
Army officers working with Civilian Pedro in G-2 soon found him a ready source for loans. Those with a yen for dalliance discovered that his women friends were many and obliging. In time, the roster of Philippine officials indebted to Pedro de la Pena reached throughout army headquarters, the Senate and Manila's city hall. There was one official, however, whose acquaintance Pedro scrupulously avoided: Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
...university, with an international Christian faculty, which could pump some Christianity into Japanese education on a graduate as well as an undergraduate level. U.S. Protestants have so far raised more than $2,000,000; Japanese donors (95% of them nonChristian) have given 160,-000,000 yen...
Nonconvertible yen (n.); Japanese currency which cannot be converted into dollars...