Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welcome to the Oil Game?the highest stakes, most dazzling game on earth. See the world's largest, wealthiest companies match wits with lumbering bureaucracies. Behold developing nations become Croesus-rich overnight. Watch capitalists try to raise billions for offshore drilling rigs taller than the Empire State Building, for supertankers bigger than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically...
Well, lo and behold, there is. Unfortunately, he costs $100,000, and the heroine apparently doesn't have Blue Cross. Enter Michael's wicked witch of a wealthy mother (Beatrice Straight), wearing more eyelashes than all the Gabors combined. Mom doesn't like Nancy because Nancy's Dad, long deceased, was once an armed robber. But Mom will fork over the hundred grand if Nancy agrees to stay away from Michael for ever. The pact is sealed, and Nancy gets some new flesh to go with her stitches. With the help of a shrink, she even...
...ready to count the University out in toto but, lo and behold! out of the ashes rise phoenix-like a Faculty which dares to take a vocal stand! I can only say that the combination of scholastic integrity and humanistic concern evidenced by those professors who spoke at the Faculty meeting has cast a much-needed beam of warm light on what for me has been a steadily paling view of what Harvard's community of "educated men and women" represents. I thank those professors and sincerely hope that they may further contribute some much-needed leadership and moral encouragement...
...Government, motherhood and free enterprise have given the nation a Christmas tree with such sublime harmony it is a true wonder to behold. The tree was ordered out of a seed catalogue by a son-in-law. As an infant it was tenderly watered by four grandchildren. At age six the blue spruce (Picea pungens) was a Mother's Day gift to Mrs. William E. Myers of York, Pa. Transplanted to her front yard, it was smothered with loving neglect for 15 years. No fertilizer. No watering. No insecticide. No pruning...
...gunpoint for much of the evening, but talks them to death first. The talk is cosmic-broody and Manhattan cocktail-party modern, which may be a redundancy. As with an onion, the peeling away of each layer of speechifying in Drinks Before Dinner leaves less and less to behold...