Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her fingernails into her adversary's Balenciaga décolleté. Dress Designer Yves Saint Laurent dealt his neighbor a smart kick in the shins. Monaco's Princess Grace, along with Charlie Chaplin, his wife and his brood, fled for the exits. Aristotle Onassis and Rudolf Bing stayed on to applaud. The tumult raged for a full 30 minutes. Then at 2 a.m., the object...
...admits that "results fell substantially short of expectations." Among other things, he has sold off a valuable block-square plot in New York's financial district, part of his Southwest Washington redevelopment project, and a San Francisco site where Webb & Knapp intended to construct apartments. Last week he dealt off his right to buy Manhattan's Drake Hotel, and a British buyer was reportedly dickering for Zeckendorfs Chatham. Considering that his revenues from the Astor, Manhattan and Taft are being passed out to creditors, the only New York hotel that Zeckendorf appears to have free and clear...
...Mondrian met Bart Van der Leek, whose work (see opposite page), though sometimes representational, dealt with pure colors in flat planes. They tried to remove the traditional moat between the picture and the viewer. Mondrian's late paintings can be seen as the visible imprint of an invisible pattern surrounding the viewer. Even the walls of his stark studio were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks...
Although many pundits feared that Johnson's greatest weakness would be in foreign affairs, he has dealt competently with crises in Panama, Cyprus and Viet Nam. He fielded a coup in Brazil with certainty, dealt evenhandedly with such sticky people and places as Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin and Communist China...
...example, two-term Governor John Anderson sought election as a delegate at the state convention in Topeka. But he refused to pledge himself to Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Goldwater forces thereupon steamrollered him. They engineered the election of a lackluster pro-Goldwater woman, thus dealt the Governor a stinging slap...