Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ENGLISHMAN, by Kingsley Amis. A rich, arrogant British libertine comes to an Eastern university town to renew his affair with a faculty wife, is hilariously thwarted and discomfited at every turn by the colonials he scorns...
COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author again strikes out on unfamiliar terrain, this time telling the grim story of Burke and Wills, two 19th century Australian explorers, who first crossed their continent from south to north looking for rich prairies and finding an unsalvageable desert. They died on the way back...
Bobby was the eldest of Postman Ernest Baker's brood of eight. The Bakers lived in a big frame house on Hampton Avenue, and all the youngsters worked to help out. "We've never been poor," said Ernest Baker, "but we weren't rich either." When South Carolina sent Burnet Maybank to the Senate in 1941, Maybank owed a political favor to a man in Pickens, offered to make his son a Senate page. The boy turned it down, and Bobby Baker was recommended in his place. He had never been away before, and upon reaching Washington...
...Russian language, as rich and varied as English, is equally hard to comprehend and spell. With the 1917 revolution came a determined effort to clean up the lingual mess, and the regime simplified spelling rules and eliminated outdated letters. Just by liquidating the hard sign at the end of words, printers saved 70 pages on each copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
Important names abounded, flood lights glared, TV cameras panned in, and the street outside was cluttered with Mercedes, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces. A night out for Venezuela's big rich? Not exactly. In Caracas' Chamber of Commerce auditorium, the heads of the country's 130 biggest businesses were gathered to charter an enterprise unique for Latin America - the "Voluntary Dividend for the Community." Through it the businessmen will donate from 2% to 5% of their profits to help fight poverty in Venezuela...