Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money rankings; this year, in each of his two qualifying rounds for the Open, he survived the cut by a single stroke. No matter. In a season when the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper were bested by such unknowns as Ken Still, Jim Colbert, Tom Shaw and Larry Hinson, Moody figured to have as good a chance as anyone in the wide Open. By copping the $30,000 first prize, he became the ninth player this season to win his first Professional Golfers' Association tournament...
...taxation," observed Jean Baptiste Colbert, France's controller general of finance under Louis XIV, "consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing." Three centuries after Colbert's cynical appraisal, the contemporary American taxpayer feels thoroughly plucked-and he is hissing louder than ever. Now the ides of April are approaching-the deadline for filing is the 15th of this month-and the resentment of taxpayers points increasingly toward a ballot-box revolt. In a spontaneous outpouring of popular indignation, citizens by the thousands have deluged Washington...
...work progressed and costs spiraled, visitors drove daily from Fontainebleau to watch the construction. The young King became both irritated and suspicious. Where did Fouquet get all that money? He appointed his chief aide, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to delve into the Finance Minister's books...
...avid collector of modern art, Pompidou as Premier yanked down the fusty old portraits of Richelieu, Colbert and other ancient statesmen and filled his office walls with splashy Soulages, Ernsts and Buffets. Later, he replaced the sculptured nymphs in the garden of his offices with a modern sculpture that Culture Minister André Malreaux had recommended as "unknown but remarkable...
...after Paleontologist Colbert's identification, the burden is on them to explain how a fresh-water amphibian swam through hundreds of miles of saltwater ocean to reach Antarctica and die at the bottom of a stream only 325 miles from the South Pole...