Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blathering romantic idiots; the women, even when they carry on like fishwives, are spunky realists with a gift for endurance...
...private ownership of handguns. The main committee opposing it was Taxpayers Against Question 5, located at 11 Main Street in Southboro. The committee reported to the campaign finance office a total expenditure of roughly $105,000, including contributions from many local gun clubs and hunting associations, and a gift of $30,000 from the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. But it also reported receiving, in six installments, a total of $71,000 from a group called the Gun Owners Action League. Strangely enough, the Gun Owners Action League also lists its address as Box 272 at 11 Main Street...
...Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms and accompanying fog of cigarette smoke became his trademarks-along with a gift for popularizing abstract issues...
...staggering abundance of the American continent invited squandering-and it was not necessarily a paleface invention. Indians of the Pacific Northwest conducted potlatches-orgies of eating, gift giving and the willful destruction of their own property. The more a man could part with, the greater his status. The prairies and the plains were once horizon-to-horizon bison. The animals were obliterated partly to feed railroad workers but mostly for sport or to furnish the rich with carriage robes and the novelty of nibbling on buffalo tongue. Great clouds of passenger pigeons were peeled from the sky with shotguns...
...have followed with great interest the recent articles in The Crimson regarding the one-million dollar gift to Harvard by the Korean Trader's Association (KTA), and the possible relationship between that donation and the influence-peddling activities of the Korean government operatives in Washington. As persons connected with this case, we now feel called upon to speak out publicly on this issue...