Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said nothing at all about Russia's most important squabble-the one with Communist China. But this was surely a topic of conversation when Khrushchev, bundled up in a fur hat and fur-trimmed coat, suddenly arrived for a visit with Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in a lavish hunting lodge 125 miles north of Warsaw-the same frigid site where Nikita met Gomulka a year ago for discussion of Communist problems and some hunting in the nearby woods...
...before landing. Though Egyptian authorities provided an enthusiastic crowd to greet the Chinese Premier, the official welcome was somewhat restrained. President Nasser-in Tunisia to attend ceremonies marking France's withdrawal from the Bizerte naval base when Chou arrived-got back to Cairo in time to give a lavish banquet at Abdin Palace. He presented Red China's premier with Egypt's highest decoration-the Collar of the Nile; in return, Chou rose to pledge an association between their two countries as enduring as "the ever-flowing Nile and Yellow Rivers...
Throughout his lifetime, Lehman was lavish with money. His charitable contributions to such groups as United Jewish Appeal, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, and a host of child welfare organizations were classic. In 1960 he gave $500,000 toward a children's zoo in Manhattan's Central Park...
...home mortgages and apartment rents. All blue-collar employees and their families are covered by national health insurance. If they are permanently disabled, on or off the job, the government provides a pension for life, and funeral benefits are handsome enough to make the German way of death fairly lavish...
...ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by Jean Guiart. 461 pages. Golden Press. $25. This is Volume IV of the extraordinary "museum without walls" proposed by Andre Malraux and sponsored by the French government, which will eventually run to 40 volumes encompassing the whole of man's arts. Lavish in its illustrations, the present volume catches all the expressive, primitive power of Oceanic art while detailing its surprising variety and the age-old magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks...