Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks after it began, the biggest and costliest strike in U.S. airline history ended last week with a labor triumph. The 35,400 striking members of the International Association of Machinists not only slapped down Lyndon Johnson's personal efforts at peacemaking, but won a settlement so lavish as to threaten the whole economy with a major round of wage-price inflation...
Both companies are, indeed, lavish in their woman-wooing expenditures. P. & G. puts out more than $24 million a year puffing its Fairy Snow, Tide, Dreft and other products through the telly, direct-mail coupons and door-to-door squads of costumed "Fairy Snowmen." Lever spends about the same hawking everything from Omo to Rinso. Mostly because of such methods, profits have been foaming at a rate of 37% on invested capital at P. & G., 16% at Lever. This seemed wrong to the commission, which pointed out that the average British manufacturer earns only...
...have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture of wine, orange juice and club soda, which was ladled out of a plastic garbage...
...stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish press parties to promote the "New Fatha Hines." Nothing worked, and eventually he resorted to playing Dixieland in San Francisco clubs-endlessly searching for "something that people wanted to hear...
...office, for the Bung had remained a hero to millions of Indonesians. It was Sukarno, after all, who proclaimed independence in 1945, and Sukarno again who made Indonesia a name among the nonaligned nations by sponsoring the Bandung Conference in 1955. His pretty girl friends, fancy uniforms, lavish palaces and expensive monuments are a salve for a people whose colonial masters called them "ignorant, dirty natives...