Word: loved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onassis, too, was a man who knew the value of money. Starting as a night telephone operator in Buenos Aires, he had taken shrewd advantage of a wave of deflation to build one of the world's largest tanker fleets and accumulate a fortune of about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis fortunes attracted the famous. Aboard his yacht Christina IV during the summer's fateful Mediterranean...
...Created Callas." If it wasn't love, what did Onassis see in Callas? Perhaps what he saw was a way to add new luster to all that money. "Onassis has his billions and wants to polish up his tankers, using the name of a great star," explained Meneghini, who after years of silence, now kept delivering some of the best lines of the whole affair. "Perhaps the fault is all mine for deluding myself with hopes of immortal love. I was building a little masterpiece. Then I fell in love with my masterpiece and I married her. I created...
...gratitude how Meneghini once sent her $40, while Maria sent her nothing. Said Evangelia of her daughter: "Meneghini was a father and a mother to Maria. Now she no longer needs him. But Maria will never be happy; my soul says it. Women like Maria can never know real love...
...Dubois. Gushed Dubois in a flattering biography of the hero: "A deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government." The dazzled dictator decorated the newsman with a medal engraved, "To our American friend Jules Dubois with gratitude." Last week, eight months and dozens of somewhat less enchanted dispatches later, the love affair was over, in an act of petulance as comical as it was absurd...
...eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition for us. Particularly for his sons." He wanted Henry to become a schoolteacher, like his older brother Raymond and sister Mary...