Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly 3,000 objects are of a kind and quality no longer obtainable...
Baker privately told the Business School Faculty last winter that he planned to retire at the age of 66. Administrative officers, including deans, normally retire at the end of the academic year in which they celebrate their 66th birthday...
...last been to the Stanhop St. office last Fall to pick up Resistance newspapers to sell in the Dunster Dining Room. I had arrived in the midst of the Resistance's first birthday party-October 16, 1968. That was the anniversary of the first draft card turn-in on the Boston Common...
...still one of the youngest fellows around," read the birthday telegram from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and the ex-Governor justified the historian's compliment with a six-mile ride across the Kansas countryside on his red Morgan horse. At 82, Alf London is a Topeka squire who keeps in touch with young people by conducting four seminars a year at Kansas State. "I answer all questions on all subjects," boasted Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 opponent, adding that he, for one, is not turned off by the Now Generation...
...said so for the earthworm was in the receiver now and they were ready to go. But Betty was upset, and she said, "Look, Martin, I could have lied to you and told you I was stuck in the snow, or that it was my dog's birthday, but I'm telling the truth!" Martin barely heard her; the pleasure was intolerable. He screamed into the phone. "LOOK, BETTY, YOU'RE LYING!! IF YOU EVER WANT TO GO OUT WITH ME, JUST GIVE ME A GODDAMN PHONE CALL IF YOU DON'T GO FUCK YOURSELF...