Word: pampered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adoring Laura how he refused: "Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your wishes. No! Never shall it be said that I obliged my Father." Edward and Laura set off to pamper their emotions and sponge off relatives and friends: "The affectionate entreaties of Augustus and Sophia that we would for ever consider their House as our Home, easily prevailed on us to determine never more to leave them...
...Europe, Swissair has turned the plush service into a big moneymaker. Unlike most European carriers, Swissair is owned primarily by private investors rather than by the government. It is also one of the most consistently profitable international airlines (1980 earnings: $23 million). Swissair's strategy is to pamper its passengers, especially business travelers, who make up an astonishing two-thirds of its customers within Europe. First-class flyers, for example, sink into seats covered in brown leather instead of common cloth, and they can listen to music over stereo headsets rather than through plastic earplugs...
...entirely-trustworthy girlfriend (Sondra Locke), a bumbling gang of neo-Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content here to watch the other performers pamper their eccentricities while he stands off to one side, as glum and immobile as a Teamster's ashtray...
...Hollywood, Fla., just north of Miami, 1,200 people crowd each evening into a fancy, $900,000 bingo hall. Its owners pamper the players with valet parking, waitresses and armed escorts to their cars after the games. Small wonder: the nightly super jackpot can run as high as $19,000. Top prizes at other Florida bingo games are limited...
...kept a record. His first verse, at age three: "Oh my little birdie oh/ With his little toe, toe, toe!" At the Cambridge Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., Estlin tried to write a poem a day. Sample at age 16: "God, keep me trying to win the prize;/ Pamper me not,though I be crying./ Though snickering worlds wink owlish eyes, God,keep me trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra...