Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Negro member of the Platform Committee, George A. Parker from the District of Columbia, was not satisfied. He doubted that Gold water could "consistently, conscientiously and in good faith use the powers and prestige" of the presidency to carry out the civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held his temper. "When you use that argument," he said, "you are questioning my honesty, and I should resent it but I won't." Parker insisted that he was doing no such thing. Said Goldwater: "Well, you are, sir. I will uphold that law because it is the voice...
...next made it impossible for them to take anything of value when they left. Large-denomination banknotes were abruptly declared invalid, and even after that, adults were allowed to take only 75 rupees ($15.75) out of the country with them. Though Indian women traditionally convert their cash into gold jewelry and even decorate their children with bangles and bracelets, the Burmese stripped departing Indians of all their jewelry. Many Hindu women were forced to give up the gold and black mangal sutra necklaces that they wear as a symbol of marriage...
...maintained by the late strongman. Even that was peanuts compared with the total value of his nationwide commercial empire, which included a controlling interest-mostly in the names of Sarit's relatives-in at least 15 specially privileged companies. Among them: the only merchant bank allowed to import gold; the only sales agency for the government plywood monopoly; a brewery with a heady share of the government beer monopoly; two companies with concessions to print and sell tickets for the national lottery; a construction firm with major government contracts. Sarit also owned a commercial fishing boat, some 50 autos...
...basis, museum officials, including President Harry Guggenheim, insisted that since the museum lacks the display space to show the paintings, they wanted to disperse the work. "We are done now," said the contented Guggenheim. "Before, it was a bit like misers going down into the cellar and counting the gold. Now the rest of the world has all the Kandinskys we are ever going to part with...
...plum better suited, they thought, to Shirley MacLaine-Debbie Mollyfies the audience with all the raucous charm and irrepressible high spirits of a girl who is out to win the Derby astride a dead horse. As a comedienne, she spurns subtlety but makes the shortcoming seem a solid gold asset in a character who boasts: "I'm a vulgar, extravagant nouveau riche American!" She even works slick, if slightly unnerving, pathos into a moment of pining over her wedding ring, a jewel-encrusted cigar band bearing the fond inscription: "Always Remember Two Things-That I Love...