Word: exploiting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...
...been deposed as London's police chief. Both of these old criminals have been stripped of their respectability by an enormous demonstration put on by thousands of crippled beggars during Queen Victoria's coronation parade. At the end of the film, the three criminals join forces to exploit the hungry masses, and the film's last shot is of a straggling mob of cripples disappearing into the darkness...
...there have been many difficulties. Some of the poorer hospitals exploit the visiting doctors as semi-slave labor, e.g., to replace orderlies; and they offer the foreigners little professional training. Thus treated, the foreign doctor is often a liability to patients in his care...
...1950s he pushed through a small diversification program, turning out aircraft components and school furniture. But before he could do more, his _ worst fears came true. American Machine & Foundry Co. invaded the bowling market with its automatic Pinspotter, which eliminated pin boys-and started bowling on its boom. To exploit its beachhead, A.M.F. also brought out a full line of bowling equipment and threatened to force Brunswick out of the market. Ted decided that his brother was not using the right tactics to fight the threat. Says Ted: "I went to him and convinced him that I should take over...
Champagne Finish. Even without going into the selection room, Jubilee reports, 51% of Protestant clergymen and 41% of their Roman Catholic brethren feel, according to a recent poll, that undertakers exploit bereaved families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish...