Word: armes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citizens of Constantinople had it easy when it came to foreign policy. Each day, many of them passed by a column near the Hagia Sophia on which rested an equestrian statue of Constantine, the first Roman emperor to reign in their city. The Emperor's arm extended east, complementing the famous inscription on the column: "From this direction will come the one who will undo...
...offers voters a life story full of sacrifice and struggle. He was a fresh-faced 6-ft. 3-in. former high school basketball star from Lithonia, Georgia, when he ignored the advice of family and friends and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. He lost two legs and an arm to a grenade explosion and, as he describes in his brutally honest memoir, Strong at the Broken Places, came home to battle indifferent medical care, bouts of depression and social rejection. Among the low points: going out on a date and, while crossing the street, sliding out of his wheelchair...
...father is a contrarian," says his daughter Abigail, 34, a Fidelity portfolio manager whom many expect to succeed Johnson. Abigail's younger brother, Edward Crosby Johnson 4th, 31, works for Fidelity Properties, the company's real estate arm...
Every night I drank beer at Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading...
...take over the network's struggling entertainment division. They were tempted but said no, partly because it would have meant giving up their company and abandoning their new shows in the midst of development. The company, worth an estimated $1 billion, is growing fast, with a newly created distribution arm (two years ago, Carsey-Werner reacquired the domestic syndication rights for their biggest shows) and a fledgling movie division. Still, they don't rule out the idea of someday leaving it all to run a network. "We have always had an interest in the programming side of television," says Werner...