Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...municipal government will lease the brothels to private operators, who must conform to a stringent regulatory code. Each establishment will house no more than 16 prostitutes, all of whom must obtain good-conduct certificates from the police. Prostitutes must be at least 22 years old, customers at least 18. Every prostitute will have a legal right to reject any customer she finds unacceptible. As a final touch of austerity, the code strictly forbids any drinking, dancing or gambling on the premises...
...that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration for the cats he hunted, killed them reluctantly and pressed for a stricter Indian game code to head off their extinction...
...letter said, however, that the primary purpose of the honor system proposal was, in effect, to organize the School's "code of ethics...
With all of London's twelve daily and ten Sunday papers strikebound for the third week, Britons read everything from the High-way Code to almanacs and comic books. Copies of such provincial papers as the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post got premium prices. To help tell of Churchill's resignation (see FOREIGN NEWS), biggest British story of the year, thousands of copies of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Des Moines Register and even Long Island's Newsday were flown to London...
...fashion, they are as firmly entered in the 20th century rat race as a Madison Avenue adman. No fool, Salesman Rantz snows the natives under with his bag of jokes-which terrify the islanders. He makes a laughingstock of the chief and moves into his job. By the native code losers in the grab for power are exiled to the other side of the island...