Word: coffered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create the illusion that his administration was solving the state's devastating unemployment problem; publicly denounce the state legislature just before they went in to vote on one of the few concrete bills Finch presented. In the Nixonian tradition, his cohorts told Jackson bankers to add to Finch's coffer or risk losing lucrative business with the state government...
...only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician families. The show is also exceptionally rich in objets de luxe, ranging from a golden Aphrodite set on a lapis lazuli shell to The Casket of Projecta, a bridal coffer, dug up in Rome late in the 18th century, but made around 375 A.D. to celebrate a marriage of Christian aristocrats. A m�lange of Christian symbol ism and the still-active images of classicism ?Nereids riding on sea serpents, Aphrodite borne up on the half shell by Tritons...
...second score for the Crimson was engineered by Pat Daly. Faced with third and long at midfield. Daly found John Coffer for the first down to keep the drive going. On the following third down Daly went to the air again and found Tim McBride on the four, setting up a touch-down run for Charles Sandor...
Ruth Anna, Mike Coffer--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse...
...pennies and nickels collected from private contributors in the '60s had been whittled away, first by operating expenses and constant re-drawings of the plans, and then by inflation--something even the Kennedy's aren't immune to. Library Corporation officials now claim with what is left in the coffer the cost of building a memorial like the originally planned complex is out of reach...