Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prime Minister Dom Mintoff was hailed as "Is-Salvatur ta' Malta' (Malta's savior) last week as he returned home to a celebration with waving flags, palm fronds and giant portraits of himself. Even Mintoff's enemies had to agree with his boast that he had won a "great victory." After nine months of will-he-or-won't-he negotiations with Britain, he had finally signed an agreement extending for another seven years Britain's right to use Malta as a naval base. Mintoff did not get the $72 million in annual rent...
...West Palm Beach...
...occassion when a Palm Beach type named Hugh raised her $13 she studied his face for a second, looking a little sad and then, catching his eye, smiled and tried to get a read...
...Palm Beach type avoided Kitten's searching smile and dropped his eyes, trying to avoid tipping his hand. Kitten though a long while, lit up a cigarette, said, "Give me a minute, I need time to think" and them called. She lost...
...THERE WERE still others among the disappointed who found themselves in a place which spoke of nothing so much as madness. Los Angeles. Set by the sea, it was ringed and scored by hills, pitted with valleys, scaled with patches of desert. Its vegetation was alarmingly bizarre: palm trees reared up jaggedly, scruffy heads balancing precariously on long puny trunks; huge crepe-y hibiscus opened scentless blooms like red mouths; moon-pale magnolia flowers mingled their perfume with that of bougainvillea growing in thick purple mats over whitewashed walls--sickly sweet, heavy, overpowering. Disasters plagued the place: in summer...