Word: trove
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...they sold $3 million worth of Orientalist paintings and drawings; in 1997, a toy-soldier collection for about $600,000; in 2002, some 60 Faberge objects for nearly $6 million. Other items have been sold as well, including the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's last speech and a trove of other presidential documents, a 727 jet named Capitalist Tool and real estate in Fiji and Tangier, Morocco...
...months Ben was in Iraq, Jill compiled a trove of letters, e-mails, photos and audiocassettes from her husband, who taped himself reading stories and singing made-up songs for his daughters. "I'm grateful he died the way he did," says Jill of his tour of duty. "If it was a car wreck, we wouldn't have all these mementos. I've got all this to share with his girls...
...course, how to get out of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is as great a mystery as the place itself. Escape is a long shot. The base is a prison, and a jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks...
...have been watching U.S. movies since I was 13. Hollywood has an endless list of fantastic actors. There are no idiotic coincidences in the movies, and there are a thousand different plots. I don't know why Westerners should care about Bollywood films when they have such a treasure trove. B. Krishna Chaitanya Madras, India...
...results, he has become tossed about in the battle over corporate governance because of a pay flap that won't go away. The tipping point came last week when the exchange, in a letter responding to inquiries from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman William Donaldson, detailed a trove of Grasso enrichments--from the requisite car and driver, private-jet privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That's on top of the $140 million deferred-income payout announced two weeks earlier, which had been building up for three decades...