Word: benefactors
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...nothing more than a temporary camouflage of mortality." When a wealthy widow asks Levanter to marry her, he becomes frightened at the suggestion that the two of them can construct a fate for themselves: "A superstition lingered in him that if they did so chance might turn from a benefactor to the ultimate terrorist, punishing both of them for trying to control their own lives, trying to create a life plot...
...hope and pray my state of Connecticut will be the next to claim such a benefactor...
...mayor avoided aggravating tensions--unlike many city politicians--but he also took as few chances as possible in trying to allay the city's fears. White would seem to be an excellent target for Frank's brutally candid quips, but the representative has remained sympathetic to his former benefactor. Frank voted against White's charter reform package, an issue crucial to the mayor (and if you believed White, to the city too), but they still maintain their mutually beneficial relationship...
...sounded, at first, almost too good to be true: a benefactor gives $40 million to America's greatest museum, no strings visible, to "record man's total accomplishment" in culture, "probably in the form of video cassette or disc." Such was the pharaonic enterprise entailed in the Fine Arts Center of the Annenberg School of Communications, to be housed inside New York's Metropolitan Museum in a new wing built, equipped and funded for ten years by ex-President Nixon's ambassador to Britain, Publisher (TV Guide, Seventeen) Walter H. Annenberg. It would...
...When benefactor Canaday told Harvard he would like to give them a dorm, he was reportedly told that the University would like to build it at the Quad, because that's where attractive new housing was most needed. Canaday, however, wanted his hall in the Yard, where he had gone to college, and not way the hell up Garden Street. Canaday's love for the Yard, while heart-warming, must now be viewed as more than a little unfortunate, because events have conspired to make his dorm the agent that will cause the end of four-year housing...