Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed deeper into the mystery. El Paso U.S. District Court Judge Robert Ewing Thomason at week's end listened to eight minutes of legal wrangling, swiftly decided that Billie Sol Estes was obviously bankrupt. He ordered foreclosure notices tacked up on everything Billie Sol owns except for the lavish Estes home in Pecos. That same day Billie Sol himself sailed into court, serenely pleaded innocent to a multimillion-dollar federal fraud charge; moments later, his three co-defendants admitted their guilt...
...simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson found many ways to truth. He was absorbed in science, photography, medicine, the theater. He concocted puzzles, invented gadgets and games. Most of all, the gentle, fussy bachelor sought truth and solace with dozens of small girls on whom he could lavish affection without the embarrassment of a mature emotional relationship. "Boys," said he, "are not in my line; I think they are a mistake." Though some critics have pictured Dodgson's little girl friends as 19th century Lolitas. he was an unfailingly considerate and honest man, whose moral standards were...
Macapagal fights against this reality by personal example. Gone are the lavish presidential entertainments of the Garcia era, including the weekly poker game at which the boss handed out political favors to his cronies. While ex-President Garcia relaxes in obscure luxury at his Quezon City mansion, his successor has thrown open the presidential palace, with its private zoo, to the public; the state dining room has been largely unused. Macapagal has published a complete financial statement of what he owns (total assets: $34,485), has issued an unprecedented decree that neither his own nor his wife's relatives...
...Predict Victory." As the polls closed, Belaunde and his staff gathered tensely in his discreetly lavish home in the well-to-do Lima suburb of San Isidro...
...play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts as perfect, the belly ornate as the enfabled girdle called Cestus...