Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority stockholder. He thus precipitated a crisis that, if allowed to develop, could plunge the Congo into economic and political chaos. "If we have to go hungry to be free and independent," he said, "then we'll go hungry. We prefer to remain poor and free to being rich slaves...
...disparity of wealth between rich nations and poor nations a major factor in international relations...
Howie Henjyoji (123) led things off with a fine 5-0 win over Rich Beck. But few expected sophomore Danny Naylor (130) to convincingly take Cornell co-captain Bob Stock...
...trouble with this "modern Catholic novel" by Britain's David Lodge, is that its antic spirit, though rich, is also overbearing. Like a TV situation-comedy writer, Lodge tailors his story and his characters to fit a loose collection of gags. The suspicion rises that he thought up the gags first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next...
Many men dream of being George Plimpton: handsome, rich, aristocratic, reasonably young (39), friend of Jackie Kennedy and Marianne Moore, sportsman, writer, world traveler, editor of Paris Review. Plimpton, on the other hand, dreams of being many men. He sees himself as a superathlete-or as several superathletes. His vision is not as remote as other Mittyesque mirages, for Plimpton has found a way of acting out his fantasies...