Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trujillo's favorite titles were "Benefactor of the Fatherland," "Chief Protector of the Working Class," "Genius of Peace." In a grim way, there was something to the brags. He imposed a rare order on his powder-keg country, built efficient hospitals, crisscrossed the country with good roads, built housing projects for his 2,900,000 people, improved the water supply and increased literacy. Business prospered, and so did Trujillo?to the tune of an estimated $800 million fortune. He and his family owned 65% of the country's sugar production, twelve of its 16 sugar mills...
Departing from his prepared text, Johnson recalled in somber tones that he had taken the oath of office "11 months and three days ago on that tragic day. November 22, amid the roar of the jet planes" and that he "attempted to pick up where my beloved benefactor and friend had left...
...stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural public-relations man who took the "rediscovered imagery" of "tough, miserable men" like Apollinaire and Max Jacob and "vulgarized the knowledge of it." Andre Malraux, too, "was something of the charlatan," but Gide was the wholly incorruptible artist, a man with...
Spain is also popular, because it issues a free formal card to hikers if they supply character references. By using the card, the stoppeur automatically renounces the right to sue his benefactor in case of accident, and gets maps and a small national flag. Drivers who help a hiker get a coupon toward membership in the honorary "Brotherhood of the Highway." In Italy, more cars and better roads have raised the country's ranking on the autostop circuit, though the hot-blooded national temperament sometimes makes hitchhiking a perilous means of transportation. Italian men are markedly hospitable to foreign...
Some say that Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is still biding his time while waiting for presidential lightning to strike. Recently, lightning struck three times-but in each case, Romney was the political victim, not the benefactor...