Word: bling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos...
Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...