Word: proffers
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When chiming pendulums do chorus four He judged heir to the bay leaf crown Shall proffer his selfsame poeay, Orate in yellow lit Lamontian Forum...
...Truman's remark that 'the President makes foreign policy' is not the whole story, it serves very well if one wishes to deal with the matter in five words." Rusk thinks it sufficient for him to call vital matters to Lyndon Johnson's attention, to proffer alternatives, and to let the President decide...
Lindner's paintings are violently theatrical; bathed in stagelight, they proffer biting vignettes of the modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...Kennedys try to shield Daughter Caroline from too much publicity. But despite all her parents' efforts, Caroline is a real Kennedy: she makes news. She came clutching her mother's shoes into a presidential press conference at Palm Beach. Carefully rehearsed, she was on hand to proffer a fresh rose to an enchanted Nehru at Newport. Once, Kennedy had to break off a TV filming to go and wipe Caroline's offstage tears ("Who's crying in this house?" he demanded). Again the President of the U.S., spending a weekend at Glen Ora, was heard...
...Russians last week said coldly that they had no grain to spare for China, did not even proffer gold or currency to help Peking buy it elsewhere. Instead, Moscow will send China this year some 500,000 tons of sugar. Sugar is one food commodity that China does not need, since it is already committed to take 1,000,000 tons of Castro's Cuban sugar...