Word: bask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tovarish. Mobs crowded Nob Hill in San Francisco to cheer Khrushchev as he arrived at his hotel. Happily he waved back, reappeared at his hotel window to bask in the spontaneous welcome. "You have charmed me," he glowed at a civic dinner-and added, without the customary clangor, "but you have charmed my heart, not my mind. I still think that our system is a good system...
Even so, no one expects textiles to bask in the light of a full boom. "In the last 40 years," says President James E. Robison of Indian Head Mills, "the textile industry has shown the ability to earn a decent return on investment only during periods of unusual demand caused by wartime shortages...
...boards offer membership in an organization doing a worthwhile job, where you can daily bask in the results of your efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON, who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax at the CRIMSON'S social functions...
Both boards offer membership in an organization doing a worthwhile job, where one can daily bask in the results of his efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax in the democratic excellence of the many social functions...
Marx, a fresh-air fiend as well as culture fan, likes to bask in the sun on winter days at the bottom of his swimming pool, which is drained in September. There he sits puffing six-inch cigars (Jack & Charlie's "21" Selection), dictating letters to his Audiograph or reading a dictionary and marking the words and phrases he wants to transfer to his vocabulary. These are later typed by a secretary in a series of black books that Marx carries everywhere, studies in idle moments. For an hour, three or four times a week, he dons sneakers, a grey...