Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Property rights are waning in value. "A curious thing has happened to private property-it has stopped being very important." Americans "may get a certain psychological satisfaction out of owning a jewel or a car, a TV or a house, but does it really make any difference if [they] rent them?" More important are rights to survival, enjoyment of income and good health...
...give the event a patriotic motif, great swatches of red, white and blue carpeting were laid over the tiled floor in the huge basement of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Gleaming like a Cartier jewel, a scale model of a General Dynamics F-16 jet fighter slowly revolved on a glass-enclosed turntable; beneath its wings rested such accessories as Walleye and Sidewinder missiles, tubular pods of radar equipment and bomb clusters...
...looked down at his pants abstractly, proudly, and said inconsequentially, "I made these pair myself. The tip used to hold a little jewel, a fake ruby, but it fell...
This long, rueful novel successfully winds up Paul Scott's enormous masterwork, The Raj Quartet, a brooding view of the last years of British rule in India. Together, the four novels of this remarkable cycle-The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils-are a considerable achievement of art and intelligence...
...famed canals, until they arrive at a huge palace. They enter through a gate and pass through a seemingly endless succession of rooms, each grander and more beautiful than the last. Finally they enter the last room, the grandest of all--it's about 50 yards long, with jewel-encrusted walls and solid gold floors. At the end of the room, sits another hairy little man with a large hypodermic needle attached to the top of his head...