Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drifting." Adams was a member of the New Hampshire legislature when he and Goldfine first met; Lithuanian-born Bernard Goldfine was a personable and fast-rising businessman. Adams was fast-rising too, not in bank accounts but in status. To Goldfine, money alone did not bring status, but he spent freely, gave openly. Adams was flattered by the attention; his bedrock New England heart was moved by the warmth and yearnings of an "immigrant" who wanted friendship. The Adamses and the Goldfines drew together. When Goldfine's son Solomon drifted from his studies at Dartmouth, it was Dutch Uncle...
...Goldfine's real estate company, a local operation that did not peddle its wares very far from home, spent $25,475.73 on tax-deductible "traveling" expenses, put out several items totaling $1,868.16 to the Stuart Liquor...
Even Judge Wyzanski barely jumped away from the splash of Goldfine's friendly money. Last November, while he patiently sorted out the complex Boston Port operations, Wyzanski spent an evening with his wife at one of her fund-raising benefits, this one for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Who should turn up-and make a $1,000 contribution "in honor of Mrs. Wyzanski"-but Bernard and Charlotte Goldfine, whom the Wyzanskis had never met socially. With an air of innocent enthusiasm, Mrs. Goldfine bustled over to say that her husband had made the gift "because he admires your wife...
...taken with a great deal of sympathy by the President," said Carlos Garcia, and at talks' end he got loans of up to $125 million, with an understanding that more might be available next year and the year after that if the $125 million is wisely spent...
...Bubbling Pot. To confirm this thesis, Russia's Czechoslovak stooges all last week were ominously baying that Imre Nagy (rhymes with dodge) had spent the last days of the Hungarian revolt "plotting in the Yugoslav embassy" in Budapest. But the fact seemed to be that Tito, like Nagy and Maleter, was not the real focus of Russian wrath but merely the symbol of a problem that has bedeviled the Soviets ever since the death of Stalin...