Word: hoarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near enough to Cambridge, you try to stockpile the stimulus, greedily gathering it on short-term visits to take home and hoard until you're next in town. But it doesn't work...
...while after his overthrow, there were rumors that the new, increasingly leftist military government intended to execute the old Emperor, or allow him to go into exile in exchange for the hoard he was said to have in numerous Swiss banks. Instead, he was permitted to spend his last days in Addis Ababa under an easy house arrest. Servants still addressed him as "Your Imperial Majesty." As recently as last December, he remarked to two foreign visitors, "I can convoke my ministers, generals and relatives whenever I like." After all those decades of absolute power, the old man apparently could...
...political turmoil. Now falling at the rate of $100 million per month, Portugal's foreign-currency reserves will be exhausted by the end of the year. Although Lisbon could then draw upon its huge gold stocks-worth $5 billion at current market prices, making it the eighth largest hoard in the world-any significant sale of bullion would likely be politically explosive. The ordinary Portuguese, a notorious gold bug, would rightly regard the sale as an act of desperation...
...meaning only scattered shooting in the city's muceques (slums) and perhaps a dozen deaths in the capital. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed in fighting since last January. In an effort to halt the bloodshed, Portuguese troops swept through the muceques and found an enormous hoard of arms, including mortars, machine guns, mines and homemade bombs. Two weeks ago, leaders of the territory's three warring liberation groups met and agreed that civilians should be disarmed, but the task seems impossible. The agreement piously deplored "private justice," but the three movements continued to kill...
...developed it into a great private collection along the legendary pattern of the Morgan or the Frick. It ranges from Renaissance pottery and medieval acquamanilia (water vessels) to Rembrandts, El Grecos and an astounding collection of more than 1,000 14th-19th century drawings. Parts of this hoard were occasionally lent to institutions like the Orangerie in Paris, but nobody had regular access to it except Lehman's friends and a small circle of approved art historians. Lehman's eye for painting after 1860 was poor, and his collection has its foibles-one being an appetite for fluffy...