Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week by revealing that 24 million bushels of surplus U.S. livestock feed grains had somehow gone astray. The grain was supposed to have been shipped to Austria between 1959 and 1962 in a complex intergovernmental barter deal, but Administration officials admitted that international grain dealers had apparently reaped lush profits by illegally diverting most of the stuff to West Germany and selling it there...
...lake through which winds a little brook with pools, and tiny waterfalls over the great roots of trees . . . Beyond the lake is Monument Mountain, looking like a headless sphinx wrapped in a Persian shawl, when clad in the rich and diversified autumnal foliage of its woods." To the lush beauty of nature, Tanglewood added the spare beauty of modern architecture in 1938 with the 6,037-capacity Music Shed. This is Conductor Erich Leinsdorfs first season in the Shed, and he made his opening-week debut both bold and orthodox by performing a clutch of Mozart concertos and divertimenti never...
...place white people ought not to live in." Yet the premises were cluttered with mementos of the family's better days: a letter to Beckwith's grandmother from Jeff Davis: pieces of china from Beauvoir, the Davis mansion near Biloxi. To Beckwith, these must have suggested lush plantations, colonnaded mansions-and white supremacy...
...East. In this year's campaign, Belaúnde promised Peruvians land reform based on expropriation of the big estates, worker-controlled industrial cooperatives, housing, food, jobs, easy loans. He talked of opening up the lush jungles to the east beyond the Andes-and went there himself by canoe and muleback. He opposed U.S.-owned oil companies, but denied that he was anti-Yankee and called for more foreign investment. When Peru's Communists offered their support, he said, "I am against international Communism." Yet he did not reject their votes...
...average tastes, nonexotic pleasures. Every day at precisely 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.-right in the middle of a movie set, if that's where she happens to be-she has hot milk and buttered biscuits. She needs this sustenance as much as a lush needs booze...