Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foothill campus is a 122-acre complex of 36 buildings, with lavish language labs, a big outdoor swimming pool, a 1,000-seat auditorium and parking space for 3,000 cars. Designed by Architects Ernest J. Kump and Master & Kurd, the redwood-and-concrete campus is so stunning that it took the first and only prize awarded this year by the American Institute of Architects...
...Suite. Seven months after his arrival at Yuba, McGara merged the company with San Francisco's Portuguese-American Tin Co. Then, in return for lavish amounts of Yuba cash or stock, he successively bought a welding company, a steel fabricating mill, a Texas petrochemical firm, an Indiana crane manufacturer, an Ohio power toolmaker, and even his former employer, Adsco Industries. Within three heady years, Yuba boasted 17 operating divisions run from a plush suite of offices in San Francisco's new Crown Zellerbach Building. Carried away by McGara's predictions that Yuba's sales would soon...
...some time. Jordan's gay, gutty King Hussein, 26. has shown signs of settling down. Once a lavish aviation and sports-car buff, he has not had a new plane or car in three years. Recalling a Washington visit, he often says earnestly: "Our main problem is how to fit President Kennedy's vision and energy to Jordan's problems." Fortnight ago Hussein acted with vision, energy and political daring...
There is nothing, nothing in this world, sloppier than a Marx Brothers movie. The relationship of any given scene to the one before it or the one after it is tenuous at best. The lavish production numbers are unbelievably horrible. And as for acting--what acting...
...skyscrapers. From the Piazza del Duomo rises the bedlam that only Italian traffic can generate. In front of the cathedral's stately bronze doors Milan is digging an entrance for its new subway. Everywhere Milanese businessmen move at dogtrot pace in a furious pursuit of profits, and lavish restaurants, such as Giannino, have geared their cuisine and prices to help them spend...