Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiaircraft guns, donated nearly $50 million to libraries and laboratories around the world, but never quite stilled the doubts aroused by his suspected dealings with the Nazis in World War II; of cancer; in Stockholm. A consummate salesman, Wenner-Gren worked in obscure jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel refrigerators, hobnobbed with dictators, Prime Ministers and Presidents throughout the Western world till the outbreak of World War II, when he fled by yacht to Mexico, where he spent many...
...playing roles, the usual overcivilized charades. Mistress No. 1, a successful couturiére, lives a man's life because she is afraid to be a woman. But she is also afraid to be alone, especially at night, so she rents a sheep she can count on till she falls asleep. The hero himself, more honest and more naive than the others, is a mother's boy who likes to think of himself as a Don Juan but has become, in effect, a male prostitute...
...envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff job at Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF and stayed on in the Army till his 1955 retirement as a major general, returned to diplomacy only last March at the behest of President Kennedy...
...tidy local industry. But when Prohibition came, the vintners either ground out tons of grape juice or sadly closed down their presses and let their plump grapes wrinkle up into raisins. After repeal, the vineyards recovered only slowly, did not begin to produce wine they could be proud of till the late 1930s...
...toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied that Britain was to balance itself neatly between Europe and the Commonwealth, a curious program that will complicate Mr. Butler's task immeasurably. For Britain has to make a choice...