Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving her the flat-broke treatment, the U.T. date will let her know you really care; if you've shown her Boston's bright spots the previous time, it'll show her you're adaptable, not addicted to splendor, and not afraid she is. After the U.T., you adjourn to a sofa or car to see whether she was bluffing when she kissed you goodnight...
Envoys & Farmers. Opulent Oriental rugs were spread out on the grass, and dazzling turquoise gadis (bolsters) were placed on the rugs. Reclining on the rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...
Smiling Front. Harold Talbott left Washington amid a flash of splendor, a flare of ill-temper, and no sign that he yet understood why he was going. Talbott was enraged when he read that Secretary Wilson had told a press conference: "I was very distressed about the whole [Talbott] business. I don't like any part of it . . . I feel I have gotten one year older." Talbott stalked into Wilson's office, crowded with reporters and cameramen focusing on his successor, Don Quarles...
...postwar Britain has more than recouped in numbers what it lost in splendor. Its yacht squadrons have trebled since 1939, with smaller classes ranging from 12-ft. "Firefly" dinghies to 29-ft. International Dragon sloops. More than 600 clubs now belong to the Royal Yachting Association. As in the U.S.. sailing in Britain has undergone a middle-class renaissance...
Peking was already more than 2,000 years old when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...