Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of free-spending princes and corrupt politicians may be on the way out in Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich royal family, which has always loved its air-conditioned Cadillacs and lavish trips to Paris, got word last week of an austerity drive that will slash its private income by 20%-from $56 million to $45 million-with promises of more cuts to come. "The government's getting honest," said a surprised Saudi businessman. "We used to add 50% to all bids to cover the payoff. Now it's dropped to 10%-or maybe a little more, just...
...vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder. Recalling her mother's expression when she failed, one girl says: "I might have been telling her that I was having a baby." Many parents buy their way out of eleven-plus failure...
...hear her tell it, Italian-born Cora Galenti had found the Fountain of Youth. She even gave the name to her Sunset Boulevard salon. There and at her lavish Hollywood home she treated thousands of women and many men. When they went in, the skin on their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made...
...seem to be gilding the lily, for Stanford was born rich in 1885, when Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford launched it with the world's then biggest endowment-$21 million and 8,800 acres 30 miles south of San Francisco. Unhappily, wealth bred sloth at Stanford. It let its lavish Neo-Romanesque premises molder. Deluged with veterans after World War II, it was soon in serious trouble...
...Drasin filmed Sunday in Washington Square during the folksinging riot just before his freshman year; it went on to win international acclaim at festivals and in the film journals. At last it has come to the Square, but neither the Brattle, in its ads, nor Ivy Films, in its lavish spread in the HSA Calendar, bothered to mention Sunday. For the Brattle this amounts merely to bad business, but for Ivy Films it is an act of bad faith. Drasin was an active member of Harvard's film society (he is now on a leave of absence) and he shot...