Word: habitants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
...image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...
...recorded Tanner's narrative. To flesh out the account, Author O'Meara, a former advertising copywriter turned historical novelist, falls back on his formidable store of frontier lore and suggests that the American Indian was something less than nature's nobleman, e.g., some tribes had a habit of roasting captured children alive. But O'Meara cannot get away from the fact that he just does not know enough about John Tanner, who is made to sound more savant than savage. Other private journals kept at Sault Ste. Marie indicate that the bedeviled Tanner eventually developed into...
Besides wiping out the inflationary habit of thought that had kept the stock market buoyed up, Kennedy's victory over Big Steel profoundly undercut the business community's confidence in the future, provoked widespread fears that the President intended to fasten de facto controls on prices and profits. The intensity of this feeling was reflected this week at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in Manhattan, where Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. bitterly accused Kennedy of heading "toward a form of socialism in which the pretense of private property...
...togetherness as practiced by Sartre and Simone made far higher demands than traditional domestic fidelity. They faced the fact that from time to time, in order to fulfill themselves, they might have to live separately. Above all, their allegiance, unlike matrimony, was never to degenerate into mere duty-or habit. Sartre once almost backslid on this. Faced with their first temporary separation (he was offered a teaching job in Le Havre; she had one in Marseille), he asked her to marry him for real. But Simone was strong enough for both of them. She refused...