Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rewards. As I wrote in Private Faces/ Public Places: "Gene left our home in August of 1969 ... I do not regret that for 30 years, in the words of Simone de Beauvoir, 'I spontaneously preferred an other existence to my own.' I think I am a much richer person for having shared that existence . . . Despite the fact that the (1968 peace) campaign brought...
Bailey's, around the corner at 21 Brattle St., offers excellent ice cream--richer, thicker and smoother than Brigham's. And its quiet old-fashioned atmosphere is a pleasant contrast to Brigham's jazzy red-white-and blue decor and canned music. Part of a small chain in business since 1873, the store offers seven basic flavors plus flavors of the month. The chocolate chip is particularly good. All cones are 45 cents, pints 95 cents and quarts...
...classic condition for a price drop. Saudi Arabia continues in its outspoken position as the one producing country whose officials have consistently argued that it is unrealistic for Middle East states to maintain posted prices for oil that are four tunes as high as they were last fall. Richer in petroleum reserves than any other nation, Saudi Arabia announced last month that in early August it would auction off some crude without setting a minimum price. Its plans aroused high hopes, especially in the U.S., that this month would see the beginning of the long-awaited price fall...
...opened his comeback tour in a steady drizzle at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. The first number, appropriately Let It Rain, revealed a richer, stronger voice. From watching Stevie Wonder sing, Clapton says, he learned to breathe in great drafts from his diaphragm. "It sends the blood rushing to my head and gives me an incredible high," he laughs. "I sometimes get dizzy onstage...
With each successive story, Novelist Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File) grows richer and more book clubbable. He also finds it harder and harder to get his action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every conceivable subject from the state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about...