Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outrunning and outclimbing even the newest U.S. fighter planes. Thus a study of the MIG-25's complex radar, engines and missile system could provide U.S. experts with new insights about the current state of Soviet aeronautical and electronic technology. Delighted by Belenko's gift, the White House immediately announced its willingness to grant political asylum to the Soviet lieutenant. At week's end he arrived in Los Angeles aboard a commercial airliner from Tokyo en route to a secret destination, where he will be questioned by U.S. military and intelligence officers. Heading in the opposite direction...
...written his own gaudy death scene he would be disremembered now as a spoiled rich boy who gave good parties and wrote bad poetry. He worked very hard at literature, after he discovered it, and raised the level of his poems from wretched to mediocre. But he had no gift for language, and he was trapped in the modish but sterile conviction that if he clothed his mind in the rags of madness, he would become a seer...
...rhetoric resounded interminably in plenary sessions at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall-a $5 million gift to Sri Lanka from the People's Republic of China-delegates found more agreement in a committee devoted to economic matters. Among their proposals: producer associations to get higher prices for basic commodities, detailed plans for trade expansion with the developed countries and cooperation in the establishment of a Third World currency and a development bank. Said the committee: "The developing countries, and particularly the poorer ones, are in a state of total desperation...
Step by step, in a steady series of accretions of meaning, these lessons lead toward acquiring the gift of speech. Says Bruner: "Man realizes his full heritage when he reaches language. But he is doing things along the way which are also quite remarkable...
...contest where voters split along racial lines. Austin's campaign was seriously hurt by charges that he had taken kickbacks from the state's private license-plate vendors. When it was revealed that they had installed $10,000 worth of air-conditioning in his house as a "gift," his reply was that he did not know it was being done. Riegle will run in November against Republican Representative Marvin Esch, 49, a moderate, ten-year congressional veteran from Ann Arbor...