Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ally who, perching perilously on Russia's border, supplies oil to the West and depends on military aid from the U.S. If the warmth of Harry Truman's welcome was any indication, slim, soft-spoken young (30) Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi also seemed in a good way of getting the economic aid he was frankly looking for, to help finance Iran's ambitious seven-year plan for modernizing the ancient land of the Persians (TIME...
...served his table. Almost every afternoon he wandered off by himself to see a "pictcha," a lonely figure who sought out movies he hadn't seen before, on Broadway or in the suburbs, without caring whether it was a cowboy film, a thriller, a musical, or good or bad. At dusk, he went to the dimly lighted cocktail lounge of the Madison Hotel, had a maximum of three Scotch & sodas, and made himself "available" again to anybody wanting to talk business...
...Aurelio: Good morning, Francesco, how are you, and thanks for everything...
...secret portrait of himself, and Costello fancies himself a man who keeps his word, sticks by his friends ("I know a lot of people who are not exactly legitimate. But that don't mean I'm in bed with 'em, does it?") and does countless good deeds. After all, wasn't he supporting a boys' town in Italy, didn't he quietly give away thousands to charity every year, including some run by papers which damned him, and didn't he give a $5,000 bonus apiece to each of his nephews...
...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...