Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambassadors at Large. The Wall Street crash unnerved Joe Kennedy and persuaded him to put aside his innate conservatism and become an ardent supporter and a lavish financial backer of Franklin Roosevelt. As SECommissioner and chief of the Maritime Commission, where he performed a notable service to his country by salvaging and reorganizing the bankrupt U.S. merchant marine, Joe lived in Washington for long stretches, frequently brought the family down to meet President Roosevelt and the top dogs of the New Deal. When Roosevelt appointed Joe Kennedy as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-the first...
...travel editors evade the ruling by selling "reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better. The airlines sometimes exercise the reprint rights in their house organs, especially if the writer has made lavish and approving mention of the host carrier. Travel copy is singularly noncritical. "Let's face it," says the Denver Post's Hamby. "You start panning too many places and you won't have a travel section very long...
...SHALL LEAD US? asked the big black headline over a full-page political advertisement in 19 top U.S. newspapers. The lavish, $50,000 ad, signed by 181 big and little names, answered its big question with the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, went on to suggest that readers write or wire Johnson "to urge him to become an active candidate." The suggestion was hardly necessary: although still coyly undeclared as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, L.B.J. was, as his slogan says, "all the way"-as active as any candidate on the road last week. His campaign was belatedly gathering...
...Prague (May 12-June 3). Now in its 15th year, it remains the only Eastern European festival as lavish as its Western counterparts. Highlights of its month-long program: Mikhail Glinka's Russian and Ludmilla, a less well-known but far better work than Glinka's only other opera, A Life for the Tsar, Gustav Mahler's massive oratorio, Das Lied von der Erde. to be played in the ancient Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral; the first performance outside Russia of Dmitry Shostakovich's new Concerto lor Violoncello...
...Tighten Our Belts." In Lisbon he got the lavish affection that he needed to buoy his spirits. Arriving four days ahead of schedule, the President found that the Portuguese had nevertheless got their welcome ready in time: there were warm greetings from President Américo Tomas and Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar, a 21-gun salute, and enthusiastic thousands lining the streets to see him. "I'm sure glad to be here and away from there." he said. But despite his happy mood, his staff caught flashes of concern in his face, and in his stumbling...