Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...MacArthur grant is the largest one received by the Murray Research Center, said Colby. The center recently received a $3.2 million gift from an anonymous donor which was the largest sum it has ever received...
...opportunity for a student to give a very significant gift to the university after they die," Cashman said...
...Their gift will have a much bigger impact 50 to 60 years down the line than it would have now," he added...
Other matters before the committee were more clear cut. The panel voted unanimously that there was reason to believe Wright failed to report as gifts the use of a car and Fort Worth condominium he and his wife received from Mallick. Committee members voted 10-2 that Mrs Wright's $18,000-a-year salary from a Mallick-Wright company should also be characterized as a gift, saying she did little or nothing to earn the money...