Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night and day to make a debris-filled, dilapidated building into a theater. They dug into their pockets to buy needed materials, and subsisted primarily on sandwiches. To add to the problems, articles valued at over $600 were stolen from them-personally owned items which they had lent to enrich the program. Car damage in excess of $800 was sustained by one of the volunteer teachers...
...legally protected cash-however illegally it might have been acquired -but the government assured them that the same old secrecy would remain for all but the inactive accounts. Anyway, said one government official, it is important that "Switzerland should not get a reputation as a country trying to enrich itself with the fortunes of victims of horrendous persecutions...
...tapestry's first muse, seems to be most responsible. Says Jean Lurgat, 70, chairman of the International Tapestry Center and leader of the new movement in weaving: ''The modern world needs these large ornamental tapestries, these colorful hangings, to veil, and at the same time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat is currently working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other...
...Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House Is Not a Home) that helped enrich the idiom ("There's no shaking off the press"), completed two years of college, where one of her professors coined a rich one of his own: "The problem is, Miss Adler knows nothing about syntax...
...never undertaken to a trade. But, at least in the days, it was supposed to give something that would enrich lives in the world, and add to their work. The idea was that whether a man turned out to be a or a house painter, he better for having gone to and for having sampled some . Certainly the idea was Harvard should be open only who wanted a stepping-stone to further academic pursuits. Harvard should be providing an education for life, however lived, and not an education for education...