Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work on the Chinese economy. In exchange for technical help and machinery, he shipped out to Russia antimony, tin, tungsten and, above all, desperately needed food. Of the $2.2 billion in "aid" that China has received from the U.S.S.R. since 1950, almost none of it was a genuine gift; the $300 million surplus that China expects to run this year in its trade with the U.S.S.R. will go to pay off past Soviet loans...
Last week at the LBJ Ranch, along the Pedernales River in central Texas, Johnson was enjoying the fruits of a job well done. On his antique desk (a gift from his staff) lay the evidences of his whirlwind activity, e.g., a White House-State Department request that he represent the U.S. in United Nations discussions on space problems, an urgent request that he attend the inauguration on Dec. 1 of Mexico's President-elect Adolfo Lopez Mateos. The three beige telephones on the desk rang constantly. One call came from a newly elected Western Senator thanking Johnson for campaign...
Telegraphed Gifts. More than 2,000 U.S. drugstores have signed up with Gifts By Wire, Inc. of Delray Beach, Fla. in a new national gift-sending service. Customers pick gifts from a catalogue at retail prices (range $3 to $28.50), pay a telegraph fee and 50? service charge to have the gift wrapped and delivered to the recipient in another city...
...avoid it? And you thought you could become, all by yourself, without the help of heaven, as great as me! Maybe over-shadow me? I didn't want anything--you hear me?--I didn't want what happened to me to happen. It was all given to me. A gift from God or the devil, but something I didn't want. And now, here we are with a corpse on our hands...
Pictures in Writing. To Washington Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times, Mary McGrory's "poet's gift of analogy" is a thing that puts her in a special class, and is one reason that he has tried to hire her. Mary's copy stands out against her rivals' because she has what one colleague calls the ability to "write pictures" of what she sees and hears. "I have very few opinions, but powerful impressions," she says. "I'm poor at summary, significance, relating-all I can do is respond...