Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fiddling with the door lock on the Tudor-style mansion, Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...their limited power in the coalition to pull government policies further to the left. Thus, while Premier Pierre Mauroy last week presented the Cabinet with a tough 1984 budget calling for increased taxes on middle-and upper-income earners, the Communists have launched a more extreme, soak-the-rich campaign of their...
...endlessly cosseted by women. One of her most vibrant characters is Harriet Bede in Some Tame Gazelle, actually an affectionate portrait of the author's sister Hilary. This middle-aged lady is crazy about curates, the younger and more threadbare the better. Any veteran of her bounty-rich food, good sherry, hand-knit woollies-is spoiled for life...
...newsletter tries to dispel misconceptions about Harvard, officials said, including the belief that only once person in each high school class can get in as well as only the rich...
...barbarism. The monomania goes to the point where he assets that Germany and Russia invaded Poland solely to allay the fear that their common people would envy the conditions of the Poles and be incited to rebel. He makes no mention of Poland's immense strategic value or her rich fertility...