Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoods & Cowboys. In the subsequent weeks the program has improved steadily. One installment argued with heavy irony that crime does pay. The biggest hoods in the U.S. "are not in jail." said Brinkley, "they're here." And with that he showed some of the kingpins' lavish mansions in Grosse Pointe. Mich., rattling off the residents' names and specialities, from narcotics to counterfeiting. At one estate the hoods and their families came out and started pushing the NBC cameramen around; Brinkley showed that, too. A more obvious entry in the Journal dealt with that old American folk hero...
...just half an hour, Kennedy was airborne again, on the way to spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity...
While loyal to Menon-who is not accompanying him on the trip-Nehru is plainly troubled by U.S. criticism. He even had a lavish-for Nehru-compliment for his hosts: "The U.S. has done much to advance human civilization. It has something much more than materialism. It has spiritualism and idealism and many things in common with India...
...West, though it involved the expensive and inefficient process of duplicate stockpiling of spare parts and duplicate training of troops. As a first step toward his dream of Pan-African leadership, Nkrumah laid out $21 million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand of socialism to his followers; $500,000 for Nkrumah's luxury...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...