Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ongoing annoyance for half a lifetime. Even the most patient resident has become exasperated as streets have disappeared and jackhammers have kept their sweet music going throughout the night. However, the brobdignadgian(!) scale of the operation deserves some respect from the most avid Dig-hater. Aside from the occasional 17th century bowling ball, most of what gets dug up is--that's right--dirt, enough to fill Foxboro Stadium to the rim 13 times. Some of it is being used to cap the various dumps around Boston, including one in Boston Harbor on Spectacle Island (where a park will...
Camelia Moceanu, however, portrays her daughter as a prima donna. "Everything she asked for she had," says Camelia, referring to an apartment-size bedroom, the gym complex and, last month, a Mercedes on her 17th birthday, which the teenager traded in for a convertible Mustang. Dumitru maintains that while Dominique will not have access to her trust fund until she is 35, her parents built the gym with her knowledge and blessing. Camelia admitted her husband had been strict with Dominique but insisted, "You are strict for their own good, but nothing to the point it was unbearable." Camelia also...
...their wilderness as God's promise, whereas Australians emphatically didn't. Northeastern America had been settled by free, self-exiled Puritans, convinced of their sacred mission to convert "the Lord's waste," the forests of New England, into a place fit for God's elect. In the 17th century the Wild West was in the East, but by the early 19th the frontier had moved thousands of miles westward, taking with it the same optimistic, sacramental fantasy, translating it into the pompous and morally corrosive idea of Manifest Destiny. The farther west you went, the freer you became...
...corner in the Central Ward where the Newark riots began 31 years before. The Rev. William Hayes housing projects once stood on this site, but now half these dead buildings have been dynamited into rubble and the rest wait to collapse. When I arrived at the 17th Avenue bus stop, a large crowd milled around preparing to march in memory of the uprising victims. Soon a youthful marching band, followed by dancers and brightly uniformed Little League teams, led off the procession as I joined a loose group of residents, activists, and curious onlookers who walked behind...
...17th minute of last Tuesday's game versus UNH, the Harvard field hockey co-captain swept a shot into the Wildcats' goal and etched her name into the Harvard record books...