Word: refurbish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kennedy, Salinger recalls, was at first irked by Jacqueline's ambitious and ultimately triumphant campaign to refurbish the White House in a style consonant with its symbolic and historic stature. He was particularly upset by his wife's redecoration of the family dining room, which he used for breakfast meetings with congressional leaders. At one of the first sessions in the restored room, chunky Larry O'Brien, Kennedy's chief congressional liaison man (and now Postmaster General), plunked down on a delicate antique chair-and crashed to the floor. "It's a good thing...
...WORLD). In Indonesia, where Strongman Sukarno sought to refurbish his sullied image by firing Defense Minister Nasution, one of Peking's archenemies, anti-Communist students dared to howl their disapproval at the palace gates...
...SOMALIA Under the Ministry of Education, Volunteers will work in mobile, self-contained teams to build or refurbish one to four room schools, using locally resulted labor and locally available material...
...projected over a four-year period, the $7.5 billion program will include funds for homeowners in urban-renewal areas to refurbish their property, benefits for elderly and handicapped persons in public-housing projects, mortgage relief for those who become unemployed by reason of the shutdown of a federal installation, modification of interest rates for the housing of persons over 62, college housing, rural housing, grants for sewer-and water-processing facilities in rapidly growing neighborhoods, as well as other public works, and extension of certain programs under the Urban renewal, Federal Housing and Public Housing Administrations...
...Transcendental community where they could maintain a level of experience which cuts beyond routine ego and social games," noting also that "there were stories of students using hallucinogens for seductions, both heterosexual and homosexual." But it was The New Yorker and Gent magazine that did the most to refurbish my faith in the glamor and excitement of life at Harvard...