Word: coveted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diefenbaker is firstly a Canadian and secondly a politician. He doesn't tenaciously covet power. He fights to do what is best for Canada. Mr. Diefenbaker did not stir up anti-Americanism. He isn't anti-American. He is pro-Canadian, as every Prime Minister should be. He is concerned for the welfare of Canada and is unafraid to stand up and to defend the rights and freedom of Canada and Canadians...
...independent metropolis separate from Cambridge; and this failing too, that Harvard's liquor licenses be revoked. Although the confiscation proposal was defeated by only a -54 vote in the Council, Vellucci later claimed that he merely wanted to dramatize the city's parking problems and truly did not covet Harvard's land. But in the meanwhile, some 350 undergraduates had formed a vigilante committee and ran through the streets shouting "We want Vellucci," The Vellucci Riot was colorful enough but still somewhat meek...
...most national attention. Professor Hughes after all is running as an independent candidate for the two remaining years of the Senate seat which used to belong to the President--a seat which the President's brother, the Speaker's nephew, and the ex-Senator's son also covet. There is no incumbent and no presidential race to blur the issues. If Hughes gets a big vote he will certainly dramatize his platform and advance the pressure not only for gradual disengagement of the United States from areas of Cold War conflict but also for an extension of the welfare programs...
...Post stockholder and elderly daughter of the late Frederick G. Bonfils, who with Harry H. Tammen, his partner, built the Post into the gaudiest and most successful daily west of the Mississippi. Before Mrs. Davis' outraged eyes, Outsider Newhouse had committed two unpardonable sins. One was to covet her father's paper, about which Mrs. Davis harbors a passionate sense of proprietorship. The other Newhouse sin was to buy his 15% from Helen's older sister, May Bonfils Stanton...
...adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...