Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angry dropouts from the Worldwide Church publish a magazine, Ambassador Report, whose pages delight in Garner Ted's putative falls from grace. They treat Herbert just as harshly. The father's teachings, according to Report, "have caused suicides, bankruptcies and hundreds of premature deaths. They have broken up thousands of happy marriages." Chess Genius and sometime Disciple Bobby Fischer was quoted as saying that Herbert "is simply a madman who would love to rule the world. He continuously tries to frighten and panic you about the supposed imminent end of the world-so that you will empty your...
Fame improves some people. Except for certain saints and others with inner resources, there is nothing ennobling about obscurity. Watergate transformed Carl Bernstein from a cigarette-scrounging city-room fixture and superannuated punk into a superb journalist who carries his fame with a self-assured but quizzical grace. Rosalynn Carter has flourished in the public gaze...
...Paul Revere engraved its seal; John Hancock signed its charter; George Washington addressed the school in 1789 (on horseback). English classes meet in a cupolaed schoolhouse designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1819; red brick Georgian-style buildings, many built through the beneficence of a Morgan partner in the 1920s, grace the campus...
...most of his 40% holdings in Daimler because he figured that the oil crisis darkened the future for cars. Until the present moment, he has been able to reinvest only $300 million, leaving $700 million to go. He bought 12% of the shares of the U.S.'s W.R. Grace Co. (petrochemicals, real estate, restaurants) for $130 million, last month acquired control of West Germany's second largest insurance company for $100 million, and added $70 million to the capital of his conglomerate...
...grace of a comedy-romance by Ernst Lubitsch, who is said to have been much influenced by it. There is a wonderful moment, for example, when a piqued Purviance tosses an ill-gotten string of pearls out a window to prove her conversion from materialism - and then rushes into the street to retrieve it from the beggar who has picked...