Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife," and "defraud the child begotten, and deceive both his putative kinsmen and society at large"? If so, the archbishop has splotched the character of the Holy Ghost. Did Joseph sue Mary for adultery? The woman in the case should tell her husband that the child was a gift from...
...afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide: "It was a very excellent party, but now I do not feel so well." Geisha Isozaki tripped merrily off to a fashionable shop on the Ginza and bought Sukarno a 24-karat gold ear-cleaner inscribed with his name-the sort of gift that, in Japan, is made only to intimates...
...always available to students in trouble. He considered himself, says one colleague, not so much a teacher and preacher as a "Christian pastor." He arranged loans, gave counsel, often acted as a sort of friendly ambassador between a boy and his parents. He could cheer a room with his gift for mimicry or by sporting one of his large assortment of strange hats. But his burdens were often heavy. Once a graduate student came to him and tearfully blurted that he had incurable cancer. It was Uncle Sid who taught the boy to live out the less than two years...
...Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul and Ethel" on the accompanying card. He immediately demanded that she pay half the cost of the ties, on the ground that she was getting half the credit for the gift...
...singers, who are an individualistic crew. Most independent of the lot: Tenor Armido Lembi, a 35-year-old worker in a chocolate factory, who draws bravos when he sings but refuses to show up more than once a week. Says exasperated Impresario Peironi: "God gave him a great gift, and he won't use it. I even offered him a job as bartender, just so he'd be in the place. He said, 'Mario, there is wickedness in your eye. If I'm here, you'll make me sing.'" Explains Lembi: "I like...