Word: skinflints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. The man who made his surname synonymous with limitless riches was reviled and caricatured during his life, and posterity has not been too much kinder. Biographer Ron Chernow's account portrays both the thin-lipped skinflint and the philanthropist who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy enterprises. Monopolies seem to be back in vogue. Wherever he is now, the old man must be smiling...
...evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago and transformed the entire field of medical education and research. Rockefeller's enemies simplified the puzzle by dismissing him as a hypocrite. Rockefeller, being a man of profound internal consistency and with a certain gift...
DIED. LILLIAN PARKS, 100, White House seamstress turned scribe; in Washington. Hardly a tell-all, My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House did depict F.D.R. as a skinflint and Eisenhower as a bully...
...Chuck Connors. In one of the book's better interviews, Lasorda succinctly describes the most pronounced change in baseball: the power shift from the owners to the players. If the stars of the 1950s actually played "for the love of the game" and not for money, it was because skinflint owners gave them no choice...
...idea may seem to conflict with the extravagant conditions attached to Baghdad's offer, it rings true to many people mindful of Middle Eastern bargaining traditions (traditions, for that matter, that are scarcely unknown in the West, where many a labor negotiation begins with exorbitant union demands and a skinflint management offer that both sides know perfectly well are a charade). The Baghdad announcement marks "the beginning of the endgame," said William Quandt, a former chief Middle East analyst at the National Security Council. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed: "In the Arab world...