Word: friend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basheer, a close friend and adviser of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, emphasizes that an eventual peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs must be fair to both sides. That means, Basheer said, that the final agreement should include provisions allowing the creation of an independent Palestinian state in occupied Israeli territory...
...Curley it is said he once wanted to become ambassador to Italy and thought his good friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 had promised him the job. Curley got assurances from Mussolini, from King Victor Emmanuel and from the Pope. FDR, however, had other ideas and offerred Curley Poland instead. in The Purple Shamrock, Joseph Dineen describes Curley's response...
...Poland?" he said, "Poland? You want me to go to Poland? That's a job you ought to give to some Republican, or to some enemy you want to get rid of. I'm not your enemy. I'm your friend...
...father accompanied the local chorus to an international music festival in Llangollen, Wales, where?to their delirious amazement ?they won first prize. Encouraged by Adua, whom he had met and become engaged to during teacher training, Luciano decided to give singing a try. (Another Modena youngster, a childhood friend of Pavarotti's, had already made the same decision: Soprano Mirella Freni...
...friend Terry McEwen, a top executive of London Records and general director-designate of the San Francisco Opera, senses a new maturity and security: "He knows the public loves him for himself, not only for his voice. If he lost his voice tomorrow, they would still love him. He could go on performing, he could be a different kind of star." That is a mind-boggling thought for the operatic mind. Could Pavarotti's ultimate destiny be to replace Johnny Carson...