Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Dunces have songs for all types, they have found on their travels that slighty high audiences are more lavish in their reactions than more sedate ones. As one Dunce puts it. "even we sing better when we're a little oiled...
...martinis and a graceful dance ensemble well-trained by Agnes deMille. But the songs, with the exception of those saturated with Miss Channing's personality and 'Bye, 'Bye Baby, are the kind whistled during intermission, then forgotten. Furthermore, Oliver Smith's set designs add no bounce whatsoever to the lavish production numbers. Some are flat and sloppy, while others present the eye with blotches of unrelated color. I won't argue that 1924 buildings didn't look like the ones in Mr. Smith's sets, but I doubt whether trees have changed that much...
...there would be a glut, not a shortage. Engineering students used to spend their last spring in college like any other seniors: looking for jobs. But today industry competes for their services with the fierce cunning of Hollywood star-snatchers; they are wooed by eager personnel men, treated to lavish dinners, whisked off on inspection trips to factories. Most engineering graduates have at least half a dozen offers, with an average starting salary of $350 a month...
...percentage of truth in the Strong Man's charges seemed to make little difference. Seven years of government by President Prío's Auténtico Party had clearly left the average citizen a little cynical about democracy. Few Cubans doubted that administration politicos had taken lavish liberties with the public purse. Last week, egged on by Batista's hastily reorganized propaganda department, the Havana press reported that men around Prío made off with $30 million from last year's $300 million budget. Batista men also charged, without documenting the claims, that...
...hefty pay hikes since then.) To boost farm output 20% for the export market, Peron promised his old whipping boys, the farmers, one-third more for their grain. This meant scrapping his policy of paying farmers peanuts for their crops, then selling abroad for millions to finance his lavish industrialization schemes. The President also promised to slash his huge public works program...