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Word: briefness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief notice of the appropriation in the Boston Globe stirred little comment until City Councillor Frederick Langone spoke out about it. "Curley never sat on a bench in his life," Langone cried. He should have something "more dignified." In reply, one William E. O'Halloran of Newtonville took pen in hand and tongue in cheek. A mere $65,000 was "not nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Confronting a Curley $65,000 Question | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Recession will strike the U.S. economy later this year, but the slowdown will be shallow and brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here Comes the Recession | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...question are Boston telephone operators in the year 1919, who in an effort to win recognition of their struggle with the director of the nationalized phone system, shut down the Beantown exchanges. Although the strike spread throughout New England, history has tended to give the event only a brief note in comparison to the more notorious Boston Police Strike of the same year. This original production combines a good deal of music with its dramatic treatment. At the Newbury Street Theater in Copley Square...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: 'Listening In' on 'Children;' Week II for Chapter II | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...wonders how deeply Waller resented the Harlem ghetto that, ironically, his music made so fashionable among Cafe Society. Ain't Misbehavin' might have benefited from a few lines providing some insights into Waller's character, or at least some biography. A brief description of Harlem during this period would be a welcome respite from the somewhat relentless pace of the nonstop singing. Nevertheless, Ain't Misbehavin' has plenty of moments you'll wish would never end. At the Wilbur Theater...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: 'Listening In' on 'Children;' Week II for Chapter II | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...fedayeen's most spectacular feat was their brief capture of the American embassy. What were they trying to prove? The best guess is that having fought with Khomeini's forces against the Shah, the fedayeen were trying to cause friction between Khomeini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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