Word: spent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when and where of talks with Khrushchev-yet in fact only confirmed what Chancellor Adenauer had predicted after his meeting with De Gaulle in early December. In Paris, De Gaulle and President Eisenhower had had but one private talk, 55 minutes long, and much of the time was spent in translations. De Gaulle and Macmillan had 45 minutes together one afternoon; they discussed tariffs. Macmillan had asked for a breakfast session with Ike at the U.S. embassy residence, but learning in advance that the U.S. would give him what he intended to plead for, Macmillan and Ike talked golf...
...After that he wants to spruce up British shipping, perhaps replacing the 20-year-old Queens in the transatlantic service to restore Britain to its old pre-eminence in the shipping lanes. As for his own traveling plans, Marples is thinking of spending his next holiday as he has spent many another-touring the Continent with his wife on their twin green bikes...
Canada, most prosperous nation in the world after the U.S., closed one of its brawniest years in a brawny decade. "Canadians in 1959," reported President A. C. Ashforth of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, "produced more, imported more, exported more, spent more, and saved more than in any previous year...
...single day. (He suffered a coronary attack two years ago, calmly lugged wet wash up from the basement while awaiting the doctor.) Friends know him as the sort of house guest who ends up painting the house before the weekend is over. When his telephone misbehaved, he spent days digging up the backyard to find a faulty line for the repair crew...