Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble & Tragedy. Following his father's death in 1965, Randolph mellowed markedly. Dropping out of the public eye, he turned to a new task; writing a five-volume biography of Sir Winston's life. "I've wasted a lot of my life," he conceded. "Now there's a satisfactory conclusion-good solid work to do." He had finished two of the volumes, both of which won critical acclaim, and was at work on the third when he died of congestive cardiac failure...
Ecuadorian voters are a determined lot. In the 138 years since the country's independence, only 13 of their duly elected Presidents have lasted out their four-year terms. Yet despite army coups and revolutions, they keep right on re-electing the man of their choice, however dubious his chances of staying the course in office. Last week Ecuadorians went to the polls for the first time since the army sacked President José María Velasco Ibarra in 1961. The winner and new President: José María Velasco Ibarra...
...speak up. To be appreciated-shut up." Now that you're 31 and there's a grey hair in your right sideburn and you're making $100,000 a year and you own four race horses, I guess you've probably calmed down quite a lot...
Drysdale: Oh, sure. Of course, my wife Ginger deserves a lot of credit; she was a Rose Bowl princess before I married her, and I don't know how she manages to take such good care of me and Kelly Jean and our house in Hidden Hills and still find time to do her Halo and Lifebuoy commercials...
...artist, "to be the structure of my paintings, to open them up, to make them expand and breathe. I want my paintings to come out of color and not drawing. I just roll out the canvas and begin and let it grow." Lately, Olitski has been rolling out a lot of canvas. He is preparing for three one-man shows, to be held this summer and fall in London, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition, his work will be shown later this month at West Germany's prestigious Dokumenta, and he can hardly meet the demand from...