Word: polyglot
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...amazingly successful polyglot of the tastes of the times, it was occupied by his daughter-in-law until her death in 1964. Scholars hoped that it would one day be open to the public; now, unless a committee hastily formed to preserve it succeeds in raising $350,000 ($100,000 has already been pledged) by July, Olana will be doomed by the wrecker's ball...
...Sunday Polyglot. "Jock Whitney is in the Bahamas," said a Hearst spokesman. "Bill Hearst is in Florida, and he's going to San Francisco from there. I don't think there would be a merger without those two around, do you?" Probably not, but all indications are that Whitney, Hearst and the World-Telegram's Jack Howard have finally got down to business and hammered out agreement on issues from staff to space allotment. Hearst's Frank Conniff is slated to be editor of the afternoon paper; two-thirds of the present Journal-Telegram staffs will...
...country," wrote French-born Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, "Here, individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Even as Crèvecoeur wrote, the U.S. was a polyglot mix of English and Scotch, Irish and French, Dutch, German and Swedish...
...Kipling country, Indians and Pakistanis last week slammed away at one another with polyglot curses and American weapons. In South Viet Nam, sticks of paratroopers fell and bloomed from big-bellied U.S. Hercules transports in the grandest airdrop of the war. In Yemen sun-blackened Arab guerrillas warily avoided Egyptian troops; in the Sudan, rebellious blacks kept up a tenacious hit-and-run pressure on Khartoum's troops. Befeathered Simbas in the Congo set ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans...
Certainly he and Smith possess organizational talent; and both have learned something about New York's own style of polyglot politics in the campaign. They would have allies too in a bid for control. Nassau county's leader John English and the ailing Bronx boss Charles Buckley will surely offer their support...