Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khmer Rouge Cambodia during the '70s, only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...
...pleased that my organization could be a benefactor of this event," Lee said. "All of us have respect in the heritage and culture of China...in the next century China and Chinese culture will play an important role in the world civilization...
...Ehrenreich's premise that the "only honest description of [Diana's] occupation would have to be 'hired womb'" was right on the mark. I would add that Di was no ordinary broodmare, since her progeny will sit on England's throne as long as it endures. As such a benefactor, she is certainly entitled to enormous perks in the form of a comfortable life, cashmere included. JACK K. KOOK Newton, New Jersey...
President of the University Neil L. Rudenstine welcomed the crowd, and outlined the early history of the Fogg Art Museum, which began with an unexpected $200,000 gift from a benefactor with no Harvard affiliations...
Another major benefactor, Adolphus Busch of beer and Clydesdale fame, was more interested in his own cultural roots, so he founded the Germanic Museum in 1903 and turned over a large gift of statues, sculptures and plaster-cast architecture samples to the Museums. Now the Center for European Studies, Busch Hall drew some of the most important Germanic art in all of North America when Bauhaus and Expressionist artists seeking refuge brought their private collections...