Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed no chance to downgrade the U.S. to his boss. U.S. officials reasoned that Menshikov had been tailoring his reports on the U.S. so as to fit Kremlin conceptions, and that he was trying to justify his misreporting during the Khrushchev visit. When Khrushchev received a cap as a gift on the West Coast, Menshikov went into elaborate detail about the Italian hat industry's being far superior. Spotting a small cloud in the sky on a lovely Los Angeles day, Menshikov muttered to Khrushchev the Russian equivalent of "smog, smog." It was Menshikov who insisted that Khrushchev...
Reginald Maudling, 42, Paymaster General. The youngest member of the Cabinet and the man who managed Britain's luckless attempt to set up a Europe-wide Free Trade Area, Maudling is unflappable and a persuasive speaker, with the gift of making complex topics sound both interesting and simple. But he is regarded by many as incurably lazy-a flaw that limits his hopes. He is discussed for appointment as President of the Board of Trade, or for the proposed Ministry of Science...
Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...
Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language and culture than a unique poetic gift. The latest poet of distinction to be hampered, though not stopped, at the literary customs barrier is Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak...
...largest class contribution came from the Class of 1909, which gave $39,825.28--almost double the gift of any other class...