Word: crystalize
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Landing in the evening in Kuwait, the businessmen passed over brilliant flares of burning gas from acres of oilfields. In Dubai they toured the Persian Gulf harbor in the Sheik's dhow. The hour-long audience with Faisal (see THE WORLD) took place beneath crystal chandeliers in the royal palace in Riyadh while bodyguards poured tiny cups of bitter coffee...
Although these reports seemed based on journalistic crystal gazing, there was no doubt that Brezhnev was indisposed and incommunicado. If Brezhnev should be too sick to rule, who would replace him? The answer may prove as problematical as the tangled mechanics of the transfer of power in the U.S.S.R. Although a General Secretary is supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual...
...Carlo from India 16 years ago. Prince Rainier kindly made them citizens of tax-free Monaco, and in next to no time they were busy teaching the natives how to play marbles with emeralds the size of tiger's eyes and drink Dom Pérignon from Waterford crystal mugs. But this was poverty to a family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because she had difficulty making the call from the U.S. As the money...
...rain that comes down for just half a moment and then is gone just as suddenly, and, most of all, the snow, amazing as it is to all children, to whose eyes small drifts seem five feet high. Even death, when it comes, is a jewelled coach with cut crystal windows, followed by a procession in which everyone is included...
...good this year. "We'll do it," says Ann Scott, legislative vice president of NOW. "I think this is the year," insists Douglas Bailey of Bailey, Deardourff & Eyre. Opponents of the ERA like Schlafly do not agree; but, said she last week, "I don't have a crystal ball...