Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observed that a lot of guys who were idiots made millions of dollars. With my background and the confidence that I wasn't an idiot, I figured that I could do as well and get rich...
Containment by "X." Few diplomats have ever drawn on so rich a background in international affairs. From the time he joined the Foreign Service, after graduating from Princeton in 1925, Kennan shuttled from one sensitive crisis point to another. In 1933, he helped reopen the American embassy in Moscow, stayed on through the savage purges that soon followed and thus received, as he writes, "a liberal education in the horrors of Stalinism." He arrived in Prague on Sept. 29, 1938, the day of the Munich Conference. He was in Berlin from 1939 until Pearl Harbor, when the Nazis interned...
Body, black in the sun's heat like a grape body, my rich ship, where are you traveling...
...problem bothers Rich, though. "In Poland," he explains, "a player who claps and yells during a game is considered a big-mouth. Here you're supposed to make noise to show team spirit, and this is hard for me to do. One of the coaches said to me last week, 'Richie, why don't you should? The kids will think you don't want to play ball.' So I am trying to learn, but meanwhile I hope my teammates don't misunderstand my actions...
...case, Rich is here, and very pleased with his choice. "The team has really worked well together these last few weeks, and I think the other players are great fellows...