Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious fallacies of Administration policy is the belief that bombing raids will drive the N.L.F. to negotiation. If the Soviet Union were dropping bombs on our oil reserves around New York City, we would fight to the last man, however hopeless the battle, before making concessions to our enemy. It seems foolhardy not to assume equal determination in the North Vietnamese...
...city, town and village across the vast plains, students last week burned the midnight oil as they crammed for university entrance exams. Providing moral support, their parents besieged admissions officers with pleading telegrams, desperately sought out the help of influential friends in politics or government. Doctors suddenly found themselves busy trying to stamp out an epidemic of youthful exhaustion and nervous tension...
John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil...
Special & Superior. The privileges of members vary. The Ambassadors and Admirals clubs have expansive quarters on the top deck of Washington's National Airport, fitted with armchairs, thick carpets, oil paintings, and lockers for private liquor supplies. The 150,000 members of United's 100,000-Mile Club have entry to "Red Carpet Rooms" at airports, get special luggage tags and receive a newsletter. Club members don't travel any faster, but a Clipper Club member may rise rapidly to the top of a Pan Am waiting list...
...haute couture: black jump suit for tussling with a would-be lover; slinky silk for all-out assaults; a peekaboo cape for evenings of casual intrigue. Ostensibly, Modesty is a retired criminal genius hired by the British government to save a shipment of diamonds en route to an oil-rich Middle Eastern sheikdom...