Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, a sort of "bargain" between her and John F. Kennedy. Luella Hennessey had served the Kennedy family as a private nurse for some 25 years, attended at the births of 23 of their children, helped care for Patriarch Joseph Kennedy early in his long illness. In 1963 the President persuaded her to give up full-time nursing and go to college to study public health so that she could work with retarded children, a special concern of the Kennedy family. She agreed, and last week she received her bachelor of science degree at Boston College. Senator Teddy Kennedy, whom...
During the Thirty Years' War, the Hradčany was sacked by the Swedes, who floated bargeloads of art homeward down the Elbe. The Habsburg descendants contributed to the losses. In 1749, Empress Maria Theresa sold off 69 paintings at bargain rates. After the Habsburgs moved their imperial seat to Vienna, they removed Rudolf's collection from Prague. Between 1865 and 1894 alone, Vienna's palaces gained 312 pictures, including Cranachs, Bruegels and Bassanos. The dispersal has gone on until art from Rudolf's Schatzkammer now hangs across the world, from New York's Metropolitan...
...fluctuations of a fraction of a penny. Betting that the price of soybeans would rise, Tino bought huge contracts for future deliveries of soybeans from other speculators who in turn were betting that the market would fall. He was helped by the fact that commodities markets work on bargain-basement margins of 5% to 15%-that is, big traders need to put up as little as 5% of the purchase price...
...Yanks hope that Blanco will help make up for the loss of Curt Blefary, 21, whose college education the Yankees are paying for -even though he plays for the Baltimore Orioles. Signed by New York in 1962, Outfielder Blefary was picked up by the Orioles on waivers for the bargain-basement price of $8,000. So far this year, Blefary has hit eight homers (three against the Yanks), has driven in 22 runs...
...azalea and a Texas rose aren't even kissing kin. But showbizwise, what casting! So Norfolk's International Azalea Festival set a date with Washington's Luci Baines Johnson, and not only got a gracious four-day queen but an unexpected visit from L.B.J. in the bargain. Daddy may be busy these days, but he could hardly use Viet Nam as an alibi when it came to crowning Her Majesty Luci Baines Azalea...