Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Someone gave you an expensive gift and you were naturally delighted with such lavish generosity. You are thoughtful in your thanks when you declare: "You've been munificent." Or--"Thanks for your munificent gift...
...long been Japan's watchword. There is danger that it will turn into an epitaph. While they should have been sacrificing and skimping at home to retool for export, Japan's politicians and businessmen frittered away time and resources in loose planning, uncontrolled lending, lavish government subsidies, politically expedient tax reductions, a splurge of domestic production and a rash of corruption. Under Yoshida the country did not begin until last year the gestures of discipline and austerity that were needed. The gestures helped-only eight months ago economists were predicting total economic collapse. But gestures are far from...
These two assumptions are justified if one looks at some state universites. Football can be much overemphasized: a good athlete may need no other talent to stay in college, and the university may lavish money on him to secure the interest and donations of the alumni. With this kind of situation, Hutchins of Chicago took a drastic stop, the abolition of football, because the middle ground of deemphasis was impossible to achieve in an atmosphere tolerant to big-time sports...
...week studded with good dramatic revivals on NBC, the biggest and best was the Producers' Showcase lavish production of The Women. This feline free-for-all, written in 1936 by Clare Boothe Luce, remains an actresses' field day, and Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess...
...life Rubinstein and his money attracted swarms of women, most of them beautiful and taller by several inches than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...