Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Asian economies are less thriving, most are reversing the downward spiral. Indonesia, having bloodily saved itself from Communist takeover, now has to repair the intrinsically rich economy that Sukarno wrecked. Malaysia may yet fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around...
More surprising is the fact that no client has ever before sued Foreman. A rich Texan charged with homicide once said that he could not decide whether to hire Foreman and spend the rest of his life in the poorhouse or gamble on a moderate sentence and keep his estate. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value-boats, cattle, fiddles, limousines, washing machines. In and around Houston, he now owns 40 houses, an office building and several hundred acres of land...
...world is sick. The poor nations remain poor while the rich ones become still richer. The very life of poor na tions, civil peace in developing countries, and world peace itself are at stake...
...bark strips, cleaning them and then sterilizing them in boiling water for ten minutes. The clean strips are left to soak for a day in about a half-gallon of cold water. After filtering, a teaspoonful of the water is claimed to send the drinker to a heaven of rich colors...
...familiar Auchincloss lawyer and stockbroker characters are joined in this collection by two ancillary types: an auctioneer who casts a cold eye on objects left by the rich dead, and "the matrons," a gilded gaggle of rich old gorgons who hold the purse strings of family fortunes like bowstrings about the necks of their grandchildren. These characters are all united by money-not the new vulgar stuff that was extruded by the bull markets of the '50s and '60s, but the old stable commodity collected in the Civil War. It is the kind of money that nourished Manhattan...