Word: donning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appearances deceive. "Don Pepe," says an admiring countryman, "is a real he-man." Far from being an otherworldly intellectual, Lopez Portillo is a tough-minded leader with an abrasive streak and a bent for professorial oratory: he often salts his speeches with fire-and-brimstone references to the Aztec past...
The picture evokes painful memories of the comparable photo of Aldo Moro before he was murdered by his Red Brigades abductors last year. More than that, if the allegations were even partly true, they would set off a Vesuvius of scandal. The group claiming to hold Sindona, the Proletarian Committee...
General Motors builds 70% of all big cars today, and they make a $2,000 profit on them while we're making $700 on little cars. On top of that, they've got Sevilles selling at $5,700 profit per car; we don't have those baubles...
On bankers, politics and aid. A banker has got to look at it cold turkey. He's got to look at minimum operating capital requirements and the debt-to-equity ratio. At the moment the bankers say, "We think we have done all we can." Well, we don'...
In one sense, Actress Geraldine Chaplin brings very little to her television role of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in...