Word: bee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During World War II, Zeckendorf won a reputation as an astute real estate manager by increasing the value of Naval Commander Vincent Astor's properties by $15 million. But it was the postwar building boom that finally made the ambitious and by now well-seasoned Zeckendorf a "bee in clover." Basically, a successful real estate deal is an economic snowball operation. You find a good property, make a minimal down payment, borrow as much as possible at low interest, then sell high to finance the next deal. In addition to having an uncanny instinct for all the complex variations...
...Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...noticed several minutes afterward that one panel in the door had cracked. In similar fashion, the cast of Marat/Sade managed one night to break a window pane in the Adams House Dining Hall; they were not charged by the CRR. Nor was the student who opened fire with a bee-bee gun on the Quincy House senior tutor's suite ever prosecuted: on the contrary, this willful ac?? of destruction was hushed up by the administrators...
Shortly before Venezuela's Orinoco River reaches the Atlantic, it blossoms into estuaries. Just above them on the map, like a bee frozen over a skeletal rose, is Trinidad-an island with a history of frustrated dreams...
...Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...