Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine the world's biggest source of industrial diamonds. After independence came in 1960, the Belgians put their weight behind an eccentric Baluba chief named Albert Kalonji, and went right on mining diamonds while the Congolese central government floundered helplessly in Leopoldville. Wallowing in Forminiere's lavish tax and dividend payments, the bearded Kalonji donned a diamond-studded crown and leopard apron, found himself a scepter, and dubbed himself Kasai's King Albert...
...youngsters are juniors and seniors at Roman Catholic St. Thomas High School in mill-town Braddock near Pittsburgh. But every morning at 7 they board a public school bus and ride 13 miles to tax-supported Forbes Trail Area Technical School in Monroeville. For three hours at Forbes, a lavish technical citadel serving 15 other Allegheny County schools on a part-time basis, the Catholic kids study such nonreligious matters as computer programming and chemical technology. Then they ride a bus to St. Thomas High for an afternoon of religion, social studies and English in a "God-centered" climate...
...Music strained mightily and came out with the sound of Muzak, a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $2,000,000 assured its long-running success despite the unfavorable judgment of critics. Today's big corporate musicals are almost sure-fire successes because they are symbols of lavish prosperity-a pheasant in every pot, even when it proves to be a turkey. After reading the reviews, Producer Hayward conceded that some changes would be made in Mr. President, but he followed that hopeful news with the non sequitur of the week. Said he: "Critics don't know anything...
...Syrian Communist Party-once one of the Middle East's strongest-is still banned, along with all other political parties. But the Russians themselves are working hard to increase their influence. The main tool is a lavish foreign-aid program, an estimated $500 million Soviet investment split between military aid (MIGs, tanks, rifles) and such projects as the first railroad linking Syria's Mediterranean port of Latakia with the Jezire agriculture district of the northeast. The Soviet embassy, largest in Damascus, is headquarters for a community that includes a 200-man military mission and 300 technicians...
Pkhaladze-his ghosts fondly called him "Papa"-was so successful that soon he expanded to Leningrad's medical schools. He acquired a chauffeur-driven Volga limousine, dined regularly at Moscow's Aragvi Restaurant, where lavish tips earned him VIP treatment. He even treated himself to a vacation at Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia, where he posed as a movie producer...