Word: well-to-do
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...washer, called the Aseptic Air System, is relatively inexpensive. Its inventors, a physicist and a well-to-do gadgeteer, can equip the average 1,000-sq.-ft. operating room for as little...
...countrymen's real religion is materialism, he feels, and their real measure of success is possession. In this book, Novelist Gaiser tries to show that in such a society, good people can only be hurt, while the greedy are blissfully unaware of their own ugliness. Says one well-to-do mother to her well-padded daughter: "Ditta, one shouldn't breathe a word. But our Lord has let us win the war after...
...fact that with the wise must come the foolish, the weak, the greedy and the evil. In terms of journalism, it was tabloid week. Two great universities were rocked to their foundations by campus scandals. Eleven students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others) in a dormitory sex orgy. And the respected dean of Louisiana State University's graduate school, a scientist of world renown, was arrested and charged with the bludgeon murder of a woman biologist...
Made by Louis Malle. 27, a wealthy young sugar-beetnik from northern France, the film runs through an old-fashioned romantic tale, updated from an 18th century novelette by Dominique Vivant Denon. about a well-to-do young wife (Jeanne Moreau) in a small provincial town. Her publisher husband (Alain Cuny) spends most of his time putting the paper to bed. So the wife visits friends in Paris, drifts into a well-why-not affair with a cafè-society type (José-Luis de Villalonga). Suspicious, the husband invites the lover home one weekend and plays a sneaky, overcivilized...
...Fervor. Stripped of his patriotic cause, the terrorist in time becomes a bandit. As the years went by and hopes of upsetting Franco's regime faded, Sabater increasingly forayed across the border for his own profit. He robbed the homes of the well-to-do by night, banks by day, and always managed to shoot his way out of trouble, killing seven policemen in the process. At times, flashes of the old fervor would recur: in 1949 he planted bombs in the Brazilian, Peruvian and Bolivian consulates in Barcelona, because their governments supported Franco in a U.N. debate...