Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...
...trousers and a hooded sweatshirt with a large cross hanging from his neck, Pastor Delattre is a busy man-serving his bread and wine, bailing his flock out of jail, counseling pregnant girls, speaking to church groups, being pointed out to tourists (the mission is a regular stop for sightseeing buses). He never brings up the subject of religion. "If they ask, I reply. And, believe me, many people preach to me, and I've been transformed. Church people often ask me: 'Have things been successful? How many have become Christians? Is this worth the investment?' When...
...fractions-of-an-inch policy: the last puffs do more harm than the first. Testing 19 local and 18 foreign brands, the Swedish Institute for People's Health found that king-sized cigarettes give the smoker more tars and nicotine if smoked to the same stub as a regular, much less than a regular if smoked only for 1⅞ inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs,* the tobacco monopoly took ads to warn, "Don't get too close," printed two thin rings on its king...
...Croix des Vaches. In his other life, prowling about the dark streets of Montmartre, he thought of himself as "Bill," a regular caïd (tough guy), who knew his way around the milieu, the circle of hardened characters who run Pigalle. One night at his favorite bar, the Sans-Souci, Bill happened to meet a pretty young prostitute named Dominique. Born in a village near Reims, Dominique had been taken to Paris at 18 by a pimp from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers...
...goggle-eyed televiewers. Last week, claiming that the "defective, unsafe" steps had left her with a creaky knee and other locomotor impairments, Abbe, 27, hit NBC with a $600,000 suit for her injuries and loss of earnings. Cugie, 59, whose show was not renewed by NBC because Regular Lane then tumbled for other offers, joined Abbe in the courtroom conga line, asked NBC for $100,000 for the loss of Abbe's "services, earnings and society...