Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail. Unlike Capone, whom he eventually succeeded as grand vizier of Chicago crime, Tony cleverly paid his taxes on enough income from gambling and "miscellaneous sources" (more than $1,000,000 between 1940 and 1955) to justify his $500,000 mansion in suburban River Forest, Ill. and his lavish vacations in Florida. Even when the feds started pressing for a more detailed accounting of his sources of income, Tony had an angle: he went Capone one better and got himself a job. It was possibly the worst mistake he ever made...
After this lavish warm-up, Kennedy turned on all his political steam: he said he had come to New York "without an escort" and quipped that Tom Dewey was out in California "giving Dick Nixon some last-minute advice on strategy." "You all know the elephants in the circus--little imagination and long memory--how each hangs on to the tail of the one in front. Well, in 1952 and 1956, Dick Nixon hung on to that tail, but this year he's running alone." Kennedy listed, selectively, some 20th century Republican candidates ("just listen to those names") and said...
...says Menen in effect. As he sees it, ancient Rome's writers and pseudo sages produced a kind of corporate image of what the Romans wanted to be like, and subsequent historians have simply perpetuated it. Then as now, he implies, la dolce vita, the sweet life of lavish and cynical corruption, was close to the heart of Roman reality...
...object of this lavish enthusiasm was Sékou Touré, 38, the neutralist President of an obscure little West African nation that has been independent for scarcely two years. But in the scramble for influence in the emergent new nations of Africa, the Red Chinese were determined not to be outdone by the Russians. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had given Touré a new trade agreement and a massive palace for his embassy. But in Peking, every crowd was a little bigger, every rally a little noisier...
Insect muscles that burn fat are fairly economical, but those that burn carbohydrates such as glycogen are lavish with fuel. Reports Wigglesworth: the carbohydrate-fueled fruit fly, Drosophila, can stay aloft for five hours at a stretch, but it beats its wings 250 times per second, and it burns up 10% of its body weight during an hour's flight-proportionately as much fuel as a 600 m.p.h. jet airliner. Drosophila's cruising speed: 2-3 m.p.h...