Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate to grind on with civil rights). Sold on Newport by Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room stone-and-brick quarters of the base commander. Prime assets in Ike's eyes: an adjacent naval air station, a convenient Navy base equipped with first-rate communications and hospital facilities, ready access to a fine golf course...
...abused her that she "lay down to die." Patiño in turn denounced her as an adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
...city would need more water. Rounding up powerful business friends-Union Pacific Railroad's E. H. Harriman, Promoter Moses Sherman, Banker Joseph Sartori and Collis Huntington's nephew Henry-Chandler set out to locate a new source. He found it: 240 miles to the northeast lay a lush valley of orchards and farms fed by the Owens River. Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water and land rights from the prosperous, unsuspecting Owens farmers. In Washington, the syndicate got the U.S. Forest Service to declare vast portions of the Owens Valley a forest district, thus further...
...keeping advertisers in their place between such long stretches of lush instrumentals, WPAT's President Dickens J. Wright, 44, has wooed so many listeners that he has drawn both advertisers and imitators. Newark's WAAT will start similar programming this week; New York's WOR shows the influence in a daily show, and last week Wright considered suing a California station for taking over WPAT's evening program title, Gaslight Revue, without permission. But he also encourages imitation. Says Wright: "We are in contact with 30 stations in the U.S. and Canada who are interested...
...death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although the opera tends to bog down in a weary series of recitatives, the choral writing is marked by a lush, dark-hued beauty, and the hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success, Van Gogh has already brought Kodalli nibbles from the Vienna Opera and Brussels' 1958 world...