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Word: astoria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City sometimes on business of his own and sometimes to head his country's delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. For a while at least he will presumably have to make do, as he has in the past, with a humble suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...sophisticated, beautiful-and equally rich-American divorcee. They married in 1919; thereafter, the Porters embodied the '20s dictum, "Living well is the best revenge." They discovered the Riviera before anyone else, kept houses in Paris, California, Massachusetts-and an apartment on the 41st floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Man Industry | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...also increased economic aid to Israel by $400 million. Growing doubts have apparently not caused Jewish leaders to tighten their purse strings. Tickets are selling briskly for a $1,000-a-plate Salute to the President dinner to be held this week in New York City's Waldorf Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Carter, the World and the Jews | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...Guido ("Dolls") DeCurtis was shot to death on Manhattan's East 28th Street in full view of passers-by and a policeman. The officer arrested a suspect, Canadian Joseph Djaija, 26. Some law enforcement officials believe DeCurtis was killed because of a private quarrel over gambling rights in the Astoria section of Queens. But Dellacroce was suspicious and sent henchmen to Montreal, an important link in Galante's narcotics network. The avengers pushed around several Galante associates but found no proof that he had ordered DeCurtis' murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...incumbent told a large but quiet gathering at the New York Waldorf Astoria hotel ballroom, "I wish Daniel Patrick Moynihan well, because I wish New York well." Buckley said he would "continue fighting for the conservative cause...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Moynihan Wins in New York, Takes 70 Per Cent of City | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

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