Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WESTBURY, N.Y., New Westbury Music Fair: Jayne Mansfield adds an exclamation point to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying...
...prefer sharing my apartment with a woman...
...Keyes's books are not really worth reading, why do so many people read them? The answer, to borrow yet another gem from the author's bottomless thesaurus, is not far to seek. Mrs. Keyes's disciples are predominantly women who prefer to take their history with heavy doses of high romance. The Keyes have...
...there a significant split emerging in our government between politicians and generals who would prefer to push our serial tactical advantage as far as possible...