[Ads-l] run amok/amuck of

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 24 06:29:44 UTC 2017


On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "managed woman"; i.e., a prostitute


"Owned woman" would be closer to the truth.


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-Wilson
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