Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landing in Brussels, Kissinger threw himself into a series of mini-shuttles and summits. He called on King Baudouin, met with Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and conferred with the European Community Commissioner for External Affairs, Sir Christopher Soames. There were also sessions with seven Foreign Ministers, notably Turkey's Ihsan Caglayangil and Greece's Dimitri Bitsios, both engaged in critical negotiations on the future of Cyprus...
...could frequently be seen in the casinos of London and Monte Carlo, always at the roulette wheel and usually on a massive losing streak. At one time. Sir Hugh Fraser, at 40 one of Britain's more powerful businessmen, played back-to-back tables at Ladbroke's and lost the equivalent of half a million dollars in a single evening. To cover his losses, Fraser has been forced into selling an estimated $2.4 million worth of stock in Scottish & Universal Investments Ltd., an associate company of the House of Fraser Ltd., which owns Harrods and more than...
...Sir Hugh still has his backers, including Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc., which invested $68 million in the House of Fraser two years ago in exchange for a 20% interest; the company also owns Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and Bergdorf Goodman of New York. From his Los Angeles office last week, Chairman Edward W. Carter said he felt "very sorry" about Fraser's personal problems but believed they had not harmed the business. Said he: "Fraser runs the company, and he does it well...
...left up to Darwin to defeat Hunter in the fifth round and Wright in the sixth. The night after knocking out Wright, Darwin was accosted on the street by a stranger who had been staring at him from a distance. The stranger in an emotion-choked voice thundered, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...contract. Three years later she surprised everybody by taking a season off to broaden her experience in Europe. There, in the spring of 1973, she scored a smashing success as Mozart's Cherubino in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Paris Opera, with Sir Georg Solti conducting. Suddenly, she found herself an international star, and made a triumphant return to the Met-as Rosina in The Barber...