Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the medieval age's greatest treasures are its books of hours, virtually museums within hard covers. These Christian almanacs are crammed with prayers, psalms, and calendars of saints' days. They summarize all that medieval man worshiped and feared, depicted in miniatures wondrous with wildflowers and lavish with gilding. They are the unintentional encyclopedias of their era, and because each is unique, they are almost beyond acquisition...
Pineapple pie-flavored serving ladies smile at jokes and quasi affectionate banter, but still give meager helpings of food. Even lavish compliments on the quality of the chow never clicit more than the two regulation eggs or one slice of London broil. These are the ladies whom the management has successfully intimidated. The presence of a man in a double-breasted suit behind the serving line often creates a whole row of pineapple pie-flavored ladies. The inveterate ones are usually either under 25 or over 80. They crave affection, but fear the whip...
...bored cluster of newsmen posted outside his lavish villa in suburban Madrid, it looked like any other day in the life of Juan Domingo Perón. There had been the usual trickle of callers in the afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead...
...alone statesmanlike. After a year's study of the problem, a special independent committee last week recommended salary increases of about 80% . It sounded like a staggering raise, but even the new salary of $9,100 a year (v. $30,000 for U.S. Congressmen) is far from lavish, considering that all official expenses, except for local telephone calls, trips to constituencies, and $50 worth of stationery a year, must come out of the members' own pockets...
...tireless party worker, she has ad dressed envelopes and rung doorbells just like anyone else. In 1954, while managing a losing congressional cam paign for Anthony B. Akers in New York's 17th Congressional District, she slipped away from a lavish reception for Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, changed to street clothes in her Rolls-Royce while riding to Democratic headquarters on election night. In 1956 she headed the Volunteers for Stevenson committee in New York; in 1958 she ran another losing campaign for Akers; in 1960 she was deputy chairman of the Citizens Committee for Kennedy...