Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal involving money gifts to U.S. Congressmen by South Korean Businessman Tongsun Park has claimed a casualty: California Democrat John J. McFall. As the current House majority whip, McFall, 58, was a long shot to become majority leader in January. But earlier this month he admitted a charge that an aide had denied before Election Day-namely, that he had received $3,000 from Park in $100 bills in 1974. McFall said that the gift was unsolicited and that he had put it into his congressional office account to buy supplies. Said he: "I don't know what...
Little Sam seals his fate by handing his Sky-Pilot ring to Tyler as a gift. Like the guy in World War II movies who shows wallet photos of his wife to a buddy, he's finished as soon as he gives them something to remember him by. Crawling out of bed while Tyler's involved with Missy, he goes in search of the silvery fish and drowns...
...original play by a young writer (this by a sage) is supposed to be full of problems. His vision, which aspires to the peripheral and occasionally epiphanal, is sometimes just blurry, but then no one expected Ah, Wilderness! from someone not even out of the forest. O'Donnell's gift is what sticks, and it is some gift indeed: funny, touching and distinctive. This dividend is the one you frame because it's the first...
...Jerry and Updike himself: that galloping insomnia, for instance. Like Updike's own recently divorced wife, Ruth is a Unitarian minister's daughter. Like Updike and his wife, Ruth and Richard once went to art school together: "Cadmium yellow danced boldly through her pears," Updike reports. "His gift was for line...
...year-old novelist, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Humboldt's Gift," and the Nobel Prize for literature this year, is currently a professor of English at the University of Chicago...