Word: blinging
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...eyes hollow, his black mustache working with emotion, the last of the old Bolsheviks rose to speak. "Not everyone knows that I had an operation three years ago," began Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan, 70, his voice trem bling. "I feel this now, and it has an effect on my work. Now I find it diffi cult to carry out a big job." A frozen hush fell over the 1,443 members of the Supreme Soviet. They did not dare applaud; after all, they might be witnessing a purge...
...laughed. An Aussie syndicate had learned how to beat the one-armed bandits? Impossible. Even when confronted with Australian press reports that the group had coined $225,000 in slot-machine jack pots before they were banned for life from most of New South Wales's gam bling clubs, Nevada's big wheels insisted "it could never happen here...
...look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey promised to open a door onto the most ancient reaches of human civilization. Mellaart treated every crum bling bit of dirt as a hard-to-read book, and after three years of diligent scratching through the 32-acre mound called Qatal Hiiyiik, he is now piecing together the story of a city that flourished at least 3,000 years before the first Pharaoh ruled in Egypt...
...home he had dealt pliably and efficiently with the recalcitrant Socialist opposition, promoted an "income-dou bling" plan that gave Japan the world's highest growth rate and the highest standard of living in its history. On countless trips abroad, Ikeda drummed up good will and trade for postwar Japan, hammered home the idea that his country, with Western Europe and the U.S., was one of the "three pillars" supporting the unity of the free world...
Humphrey. At midweek Hubert Humphrey, in a grey worsted suit, TV-blue shirt and red tie, bounced into a news conference in a Senate Office Building committee room to Declare. In a bub bling mood, he made it plain that he was just about the last of the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, and a poorboy (see box) "spokesman" for the "plain people." Adroit Campaigner Humphrey based his pitch on the claim that Vice President Richard Nixon can be beaten only by a nominee who can "carry the fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party...