Word: backsliders
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...firm will take reformed alcoholics who have been on the wagon for three years and are vouched for by teetotaling friends. So far none of the reformed drinkers has backslid. There is always the danger that a policyholder will sneak a drink and get into an accident. But Treasurer Plymat figures that this has occurred no more than half a dozen times. When it happens, the company pays the liability claim and sorrowfully cancels the policy...
...they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
...other secondary sex characteristics might change too drastically. Only when all these conditions are met does Judge Turrentine order the operation (surgical removal of both testicles). It has been performed in 60 cases, and all the men were put on 15 years' probation. So far, none has backslid...
Mike Quill, raucous president of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, and a backslid Communist Party-liner, announced that he was ready to charter the first police union in New York City history and that he was busy organizing New York's 18,600 cops. He promised that his union would not strike, but on that point city officials did not trust Quill...
...makes a play for the landlady, a blowzy, bosomy redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...