Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words were justified. In just 90 seconds of television time, President Richard Nixon last week made an announcement that altered many of the major assumptions and patterns of postwar diplomacy. The President would go to Peking to meet with China's Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai before next May. The arrangements had been made by his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, during a secret meeting with Chou in Peking the week before...
Boudin introduced him to the idea of painting direct from the motif, en plein air. Painters like Constable and Turner had done this before but in watercolor; Courbet had done parts of his canvases on the scene and finished them in the studio. But the invention of ready-mixed oil paints in tubes made it possible for Boudin, and Monet after him, to carry through an entire painting in this way. Boudin's influence on his incomparably more gifted disciple was strong, and it can be seen as late as 1870 in the pearly sky, sand...
...include at least 15 people, but these are usually assembled by the packager. The main requirement is that at least $100 worth of "ground arrangements," such as car rentals or hotels, must be bought along with the air ticket, which itself costs $305. Two free stopovers are permitted both en route to and on return from the main destination. EXCURSION FARES are available to anyone who agrees to linger fairly long abroad. The fare for trips lasting 17 to 28 days is $385; for those of 29 to 45 days, it is $335. As a rule, a total of five...
Their rallying cry was Ralbol!-a contraction of the slang expression On en a ras le bol, meaning "We're fed up to the gills." Their complaint: a system that stuffs students into facilities that are often grimly overcrowded, and an outmoded curriculum that rates rote learning over lively thinking...
...spends fewer than one-third of his working days in his Hong Kong office. More often he can be found in or en route to shipping capitals on three continents. He nonetheless finds time to keep his 5-ft. 8-in. frame down to a trim 160 Ibs. with ritualistic daily swims. Pao is also an avid golfer, keeping a set of clubs in each of the three cities he visits most frequently, Tokyo, London and New York (three of his four daughters attend school in the U.S.). His wife never travels with him on business. Indeed, she is rarely...