Word: coveted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high organs of the state." The army, on the other hand, published a harshly worded report that seemed as interested in embarrassing the President as his minister. That boded ill for Barrientos: the army's commander in chief, Alfredo Ovando Candia, a onetime political ally, is rumored to covet the presidency for himself...
...Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New England to the Midwest, the old barns are being dismantled by barn buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color...
Quite by accident, they meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down...
...most difficult decision for attackers is how much above the going market price to offer for stock they covet. In a study of 50 contested tender offers, Columbia University Professors Samuel L. Hayes III and Russell A. Taussig recently found that the average premium was 16%, though lower-priced stocks ($10 to $20) often required an extra sweetener...
Instant Negritude. Among the chosen Negroes who are not entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against Negroes." She was offered scholarships by Northwestern, Chicago and N.Y.U., probably will choose N.Y.U. because she is interested in drama, figures N.Y.U.'s Broadway-influenced drama department is "more practical" than Northwestern's. Judy Johnson, a bright, outspoken Richmond, Calif., girl, has been accepted by Stanford...