Word: poshli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand. His manner was assertive, and he had an incredible capacity to discuss a problem thoroughly and succinctly without missing any details. As we sat in exquisitely upholstered lounge chairs at the PRG's Information Office on the second floor of an old mansion in the posh section of Paris near the Arch of Triumph and the Eiffel Tower, I scarcely realized that I was talking to the representative of a government which had fought a long, dirty guerilla war in the jungles of Vietnam...
...Bill Braman, a carpet wholesaler from Minneapolis, and his wife Ginny have their 12-ft. bamboo pole set up, aflutter with a weathered Vikings pennant. It marks their "Outside Stadium Club"-a takeoff on the posh inside Stadium Club for wealthy ticket holders. "Only difference," says Ginny, "is that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from...
Here is President James Garfield, for instance, well before he was shot down, dining at the posh New York restaurant of the gilded age, Delmonico...
...first MESBlCs, such as the Arcata Investment Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., seem to have been confused about the difference between an investment loan and a charitable donation. Arcata folded in 1972, after nearly half of the businesses it had funded-including such risky ventures as a posh restaurant in the East Palo Alto ghetto-closed down...
...weeks ago, Public Works Under Secretary Jorge Horacio Zubiri, a Cámpora appointee, was actually forced to resign by maintenance work ers who invaded his office (he was later "reinstated" by the government). Peronist youths went to the American school in Buenos Aires' posh foreign community to announce a project to nationalize...