Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal worth millions, the kind of high-finance finagling that usually takes place in the plush penthouse suites of office towers or aboard private Learjets. In such transactions, aides with bulging briefcases and thick black books usually dance attendance near by, ready to proffer, at a nod from the principals, relevant statistics and legal interpretations. But the deal under discussion did not involve a merger or a stock swap but a swap of a different kind:, a trade for a relief pitcher, a third baseman and young outfielder. And, because baseball men are true to the traditions of their anachronistic...
...English Teacher Cyril Lang: the books he was teaching were not approved for tenth-graders by the school system's curriculum experts. Some parents had complained as well. But Lang went right on using the books in his classes at Charles W. Woodward High School in the plush suburb of Rockville, Md. Lang even based exams on them. School Superintendent Edward Andrews took that as "insubordination and misconduct in office." Last October he asked that Lang be suspended without pay, a request that the Montgomery County School Board last week began to consider in private hearings...
...most of the 5,000 people in Manila's plush International Convention Center, the explosion at first seemed to be a sound effect: they had been watching a noisy slide show depicting U.S. Admiral George Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. But the blast was a real one: 18 stunned and bleeding delegates to a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) emerged from the hall after a bomb exploded only 50 ft. from their host, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines...
FROM THE ABSURD MURAL-SIZED photos on his plush apartment's walls (a blow-up of the famous 1968 Saigon street execution turns the victim's head into a grimacing window) to the tiny pain-pricks of romance (buying lunch for screaming kids), Allen's split-version of suffering remains the same: On the one hand, he inarticulately asserts the need to end human suffering; on the other, he has a fierce desire to sprint blindly into the open arms of a beautiful woman. With no resolution of this dilemma at hand, and unable to make a choice and stick...
Forget about Joe Bernal's high-priced swimming bonus babies, who reside in plush suites on the top floor of Eliot House. Don't even consider Joe Restic's masters of the Multiflex...