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Word: pampered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able," he said, "to meet each other all the way on all points, and perhaps cannot say that we have completely identical views on all the events going on." Unfortunately for Ayub, Kosygin is not willing to risk alienating India, an ally against the Chinese that Russia wants to pamper with every attention. At week's end he planned a detour to New Delhi on his flight home, probably to discuss the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Consolation Prizes | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...built it as a summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Aristocrats of the Continent | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Spaak's dream of a true European community has not come true. But Mr. Europe has not given up hope yet. He plans to leave Belgium and install himself on the Côte d'Azur, where he can pamper his painful gout and at the same time finish his memoirs. "Luxury, today, is solitude and silence," he said last week. To which the Brussels news paper La Libre Belgique had a typically Spaakian reply. "Solitude, maybe," said the paper. "But silence? We doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium: Mr. Europe | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...seer touched his fingertips for the vibrations and minced no words: "Six months or less." "Will we remain allies with Russia?" a concerned F.D.R. wanted to know. "The visions show otherwise," she replied. On a second visit, she offered some advice on domestic policy: "The White House must not pamper the colored people, but rather help them to help themselves." F.D.R. seemed reluctant to see her go. "Take good care of the ball," he said. "Auf Wiedersehen" said Mrs. Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punditry: Seer in Washington | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Unlike the pianists who open doors with their elbows, Michelangeli is not one to pamper his "strangler's hands." He is an avid skier, mountain climber and high-speed sports-car enthusiast (as a prewar professional driver, he once won the Mille Miglia). As a result he cannot find an insurance company that will insure his hands. Or his future. Even his manager, marveling at Michelangeli's "sudden return to the world," openly wonders: "How long will it continue?" Hopefully until next January, when the reluctant master is scheduled to perform in the U.S. for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Reluctant Master | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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