Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste for fading continental blondes. He also acquired friends in high places...
...subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch of roach-rich jungle ruled by his gang-the Royal Crocadiles, of whom Lu Ann is a one-girl ladies' auxiliary. The few streets beyond are prowled by a rival pack known as the Wolves; the rest of the planet is terra incognita. Duke is a big man in his neighborhood, where people are divided into...
...dogging all the old folk - a dotty lady novelist, a rich London brewer, a withered poet and a wardful of grannies in a charity hospital-is the intimate awareness of death. A name slips from an aging memory; an obituary read with morning toast turns out to be that of a friend with whom one was to have had tea. To make things worse, a plague of mysterious telephone calls begins. A man's voice delivers a chilling message: "Remember you must die." Police investigate but uncover nothing; suggestions are made of mass hysteria. The plague spreads; old scoffers...
...Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter: such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose love and rage and will they each had known with such shattering intimacy. If it is one of the former concepts that is being generally worshipped, however, one ought at least to have the lucidity of speech and honesty of mind to admit that for most Harvard students...
...fall of Senior year was, as usual, more concerned publicly with the gridiron than with anything else. Another only-average football season was transformed into something rich and strange, as only a Yale game victory can do it. The frighteningly large role of football in the athletic budget began to be ominous as the H.A.A. funds were slashed again, leaving all but two minor sports out in the cold. The undergraduates, with their peculiarly myopic sense of justice, protested the withdrawal of support simultaneously with their-continued annoyance at the high prices of football tickets...