Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under F.L.N. pressure, Hassan was persuaded to allow the Communists to ship arms for the Algerian rebels through Morocco. Last month, coinciding with the arrival of the MIGs, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew into Rabat after dodging warning shots from French jet fighters. Brezhnev got not only a lavish welcome but also Hassan's promise to attend this year's May Day parade in Moscow...
Denson, a gentle fellow beneath an irascible exterior, goes for splash in editing. At Newsweek he was generally credited with the makeup technique that makes lavish use of arrows, circles and boxes, as well as pictures that make their point by having Xs drawn across faces (to indicate a man has lost power) and the unsettling practice of blowing up a man's features by cutting off his ears or his hairline. Said Denson: "Naturally, I regret leaving Newsweek after so many satisfying years...
...celebrate the event, the Kennedy Administration joined New York's political elite in paying lavish tribute. The occasion was a $12.50-a-plate testimonial dinner sponsored by a "Committee of One Thousand" (honorary chairman: Kennedy's protocol chief, Angier Biddle Duke) and the congregation...
Over the objections of neighbors trying to exclude "undesirable elements," and despite the lavish offers of land developers, some 1,400 acres of lush Long Island exurbia-long owned by the late Marshall Field-became a New York State park. Selling the property for $4,278,000 were his widow, Ruth Pruyn Field, and the Field Foundation. With its polo field, shooting preserve, seaplane and yacht docks, the Caumsett domain was called by Long Island State Park Commission President Robert Moses-"one of the largest and finest remaining privately owned estates on the Island...
Having kept his voice to a whisper throughout the presidential campaign, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing finally opened up on politics-not to hail victorious Roman Catholic John Kennedy but to give lavish praise to the Quaker loser. Said the Cardinal: "If I were asked to name the good-will man of 1960, I would unhesitatingly give the accolade to Richard Nixon. During the recent campaign he never exploited the religious or any other issue that would tend to divide the American people. When he lost, he was magnificent in defeat...