Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiscal good behavior brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart fired him. To quiet the outcries of the fiscal community, Goulart put in Carvalho Pinto, a hardheaded conservative. For a time Pinto was able to stop the endless cranking out of meaningless new currency; he also fought against featherbedded government payrolls, called on workers and management to hold down wages and prices. At first Goulart praised his actions. But before long it was politics as usual...
...First Lady, she gets 600 letters a day, answers some 300, and insists on signing each reply herself. She has taken over some of Jackie Kennedy's commitments, such as visiting hospital children's wards or arranging a White House ballet performance for 150 underprivileged kids. Making endless lists and dozens of phone calls, she supervised White House Christmas preparations, helped arrange a score of working suppers so Lyndon could meet quietly with Congressmen or Administration officials. She completed the complex transaction of divesting her control over nearly $5,000,000 in real estate and broadcast properties...
...Endless publicity had made it abundantly plain: Actor Richard Burton had been in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for six months making a new movie, Night of the Iguana. Nor was it any secret that his wife Sybil had felt no urge to join him there. But last week Sybil Burton traveled to Mexico by proxy. A local lawyer appeared for her in a State of Jalisco court, and she divorced Burton for "cruelty." He will marry Liz Taylor "as soon as possible-the sooner the better," after she sheds Eddie Fisher. For Liz, 31, Dick will...
...welfare after a President's death. Johnson's smooth takeover of presidential power was possible because he was kept well-informed in all areas of domestic and foreign policy. But the Speaker of the House with a full-time job of his own will be unable to attend the endless policy meetings and briefings. Moreover, if the Speaker were not of the same party as the President he would be excluded from certain confidences. All this would make orderly transition during a national emergency difficult if not impossible...
...plow straight through the book as I did; you'll never make it. Instead, dip in occasionally and taste it. The World of Vogue is an endless assortment of hors d'oeuvres from a platter arranged with discerning taste...