Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last ball-a shot into the corner pocket. "The kisses and caroms look tough," he said later, "but straight-on shots are the hardest." Click. Plunk. The ball dropped neatly into the pocket, and by a score of 150-70, Joe Balsis was the world champion of billiards, richer...
Some of the guests at the London literary luncheon amused themselves by calculating that Oil Billionaires J. Paul Getty, 72, and Nubar Gulbenkian, 68, grew about $20,000 richer in the hour they sat absorbing asparagus souffle, boiled salmon and a monologue from their table partner, Actress Hermione Gingold. The party was to launch Gulbenkian's biography, Pantaraxia (loose translation from the Greek: keeping people on their toes), which tells how he enlarged the fortune accumulated in Middle Eastern oil by his late father Calouste ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbenkian. When the two finally got off nose to nose...
...moderation and rationality had limits, and these were quickly exhausted. "These niggers were happy before the agitators came in. Why, most of our niggers are richer than white folks; they just stash it away in banks, never improve themselves. And they don't care about each other. When the floods come, it's the white fire department people who save the niggers from drowning. After all this mess, I don't know how many's gonna be saved when the floods come again...
Rarely has the Supreme Court of the U.S. known a richer personality than Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. "F.F.," as he was known to his brethren, grated on some of them as a hyperactive pedant: he charmed others as the most rewarding friend of their lives. He was insatiably curious; he knew everyone, read everything. He talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have...
...James T. Anderson, the composer and librettist, had in mind: to tell a story successfully through the medium of one art form is an accomplishment limited by the possibilities of that form. Why not, then, tell the story in many forms, deepen the experience, and ultimately create a far richer understanding for the audience? It makes sense in theory, but not in this particular application...