Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
...plugged WNEW by lavish advertising, from full-page ads in the Times to broadsides on the backs of laundry slips. Tudie launched Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra; she discovered Martin Block, New York City's first disc jockey. But, mostly, her listeners get a 24-hour-a-day drumfire of musical recordings, commercials and news. As Tudie says, one nice thing about tuning in on WNEW is "you can leave the room and, when you come back, you've missed nothing...
Back in 1946-47, flush with $1.2 billion in war-accumulated balances, Argentina had negotiated trade agreements with Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru. To many, it looked like a good beginning for the creation of a satellite bloc. But most of these lavish deals were never ratified or carried through; by last week it was clear that they had accomplished nothing...
This month, the Amir of Bahawalpur rounded out 25 years of rule with a lavish silver jubilee celebration in New Bagdad (pop. about 50,000). At dawn a 19-gun salute (since independence he has added two more to the 17 guns allotted by the British) thundered over the city, and the show was on. Through the streets of New Bagdad snaked a morning-long parade of elephants, camels, jeeps and ambulances. The Amir rode in a Rolls-Royce...
...Shamrock was the kind of sweeping, lavish gesture that Texans love -and that 41-year-old Glenn McCarthy loved to make...