Word: rare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decades ago. Billy has often dined at the Nixon apartment and joined him for occasional rounds of golf. In 1964 Nixon told Billy's biographer that Graham might have made an able President, and he has praised him as "a great student of history with a rare perspective and insight." In a recent interview in Good Housekeeping, Nixon credited Graham's advice as a determining factor in his decision to seek the presidency...
...cringing, screaming, he is wild, weird and wonderful. Pleasence knows how to invade a playgoer's mind like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide and yet cannot disown. He has the hallucinatory reality of a dream from which one cannot awaken. He provides one of those rare performances that theatergoers will never stop talking about...
...slithery pets often bit the hand that fed them; of coronary thrombosis; in Nairobi. Sandhurst-trained lonides felt more at home among animals than among men, whom he called "the least interesting of all animals." A devoted herpetologist, he discovered four new species of snakes and hunted down 22 rare species of mammals for the world's zoos and museums. Even after his legs were amputated because of illness, he continued to stalk the bush-in a wheelchair...
...rare appearance at a faculty meeting, U.C. President Charles Hitch had said that "appropriate steps" did not constitute a break with the Regents' decision. Hitch had urged the faculty to take no concrete steps...
...such women, products of pre-tax wealth and protracted social training, are unlikely to survive the times. Fondly, he seeks to preserve their manners and their memory. If Miss Alexandria seems not entirely real except to his eye, what matter? Affection, especially in much of modern literature, is a rare commodity. Like the loyalty of a husband to an unattractive wife, Richter's affection for this Main Street Auntie Mame ends up being somewhat touching...