Word: spa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walls inside the Spa Royal Hall were plastered with slogans depicting an array of causes: LABOR TO POWER WITH SOCIALIST POLICIES! NO CRUISE MISSILES HERE! U.S. HANDS OFF EL SALVADOR! Militant speakers went on to protest Prince Charles' upcoming wedding as a lavish indulgence at a time of high unemployment. Complained one: "This flaunting of wealth is obscene." Finally, with a lordly flourish, Andy Bevan, 29, the Young Socialists' national secretary, sounded the clarion call: "Comrades! We're at the beginning of the beginning. We see the workers flexing their muscles against unemployment and mass misery. They...
...wait almost as long, but rejects any suggestion that Queen Elizabeth cut short her reign, feeling that abdication undermines the mystique of the monarchy.) More sobering still was Charles' immediate predecessor, known after his 1936 abdication as the Duke of Windsor. His pitiful progress from resort to spa was followed by millions. All those awful photographs of the Duchess and the Duke, his skin scalded by flashbulbs, black ashtrays crowding the table like visas from a purgatorial kingdom of nightclubs: El Morocco, the Stork, the Lido. Those craterous eyes, staring off sidelong past the camera into the unforgiving background...
...turned increasingly to the West for loans and credits. Britain, France and West Germany already have made short-term loans to Warsaw. Next month, as many as twelve nations will meet in Paris to work out a common program for future aid to Poland. Polish Ambassador to Washington Romuald Spa-sowski last week canvassed the Reagan Administration to find out how much the U .S. might be willing to provide...
...final days the Carter Administration considered a $3 billion loan to Warsaw, but never took action on it. Spa-sowski's message to Reagan officials was that such a loan would be an effective political lever. There is disagreement, he admitted frankly, between hard-liners and moderates in both the Polish government and its Politburo about seeking financial assistance in the West. By granting aid, the U.S. presumably could strengthen the hand of the moderates in Warsaw...
Until it closed, the Spa of Harvard Square proudly proclaimed in its windows that on Feb. 13, 1971, the first frozen yogurt cone was served right there...