Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right on expanding into all the modern variants of journalism. His ruling passion was, and is, to educate his countrymen. He transformed the Brazilian press, introducing modern makeup, circus-type headlines, bylined news stories on the U.S. model. He created his own news in campaigns for amateur flying, a lavish art museum for Sao Paulo, a hundred child centers to provide free milk and medical care for youngsters in poorer districts all over Brazil. And he showed his competitors that undreamed-of revenues could be earned by convincing Brazilian businessmen that it paid to advertise. Always, he plowed...
...well along on a lavish campaign to buy up entertainers for its TV network, last week hired a man to tell it what to do with its high-priced talent. In signing a two-year "consultant" contract with pint-sized Showman Billy Rose, NBC Vice President William Brooks explained: "He seems to be quite a guy with ideas, and you've got to take ideas where you can find them...
...image. Over and above the interpretation, several action scenes suggested by the plot have been inserted for the benefit of the medium. Some of these are good, some not so good. The duels, which make excellent use of Ferrer's ability as a swordsman, are well-photographed and lavish with expendable extras...
When scholarly, bush-haired Harold Walter Stoke took over as president of Louisiana State University in 1947, he came as a man with a mission: he wanted to raise L.S.U.'s academic reputation to the level of the lavish $41 million campus that Huey Long had helped to build. For a while, it seemed as if he might succeed in doing just that (TIME...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...