Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last December Jack denied that Sidney J. Ungar, a well-heeled real-estate operator, had paid a $4,400 bill for lavish remodeling of his Harlem apartment-at a time when Ungar was actively seeking a city contract for a $30 million slum-clearance project. Jack at first claimed that his wife had paid the bill out of her housekeeping allowance. Later he told District Attorney Frank Hogan that he had lied, confessed that Ungar had "loaned" him the money without collateral. Charged by a grand jury with violations of the city charter and with conspiracy to conceal the violations...
...Girl, sleek yacht of Big Florida Broadcaster (twelve radio and TV stations) George B. Storer. There was also a free round trip from Washington on Storer's private plane. As chairman of the commission which regulates and licenses all U.S. telecommunications, Doerfer saw nothing wrong in accepting such lavish hospitality; in fact, he argued, it was his duty to know and associate with broadcasters...
Plans for transforming Britain's betrothed Princess Margaret into plain Mrs. Antony Armstrong-Jones jelled in London. The wedding, to be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Abbey on May 6, will be one of the most lavish ever held in England. The BBC pushed on confidently with preparations for a live telecast of the ceremony...
...could not hold out much longer at Aden, their hot and ugly colonial outpost at the other end of the Red Sea. In his medieval stronghold to the north, the Imam of Yemen was leagued with Arab nationalism's Hero Nasser in the United Arab States and spreading lavish gifts of money and rifles to persuade the Arabs of the Aden hinterland to join in driving the British "invaders" right off the peninsula...
...operatic production, but it is an inadequate production of Cosi, for which good intentions are not enough. If it is right to bring Mozart before the public even in slightly marred versions, it is also right to lavish exceptional amounts of care and money on him, and Wednesday night's under-rehearsed orchestra evinced neither. The New England Opera Theater might also remember this when producing Mozart: except for a small amount of recitative, a professional company has no right to cut the operas. Length is no excuse; audiences can easily take three and a half hours of Mozart...