Word: connections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which of us influenced the other--although such an occurrence is not infrequent among friends. Now, Nick and I both knew that Forster was a "bourgeois" novelist, but still, Nick told me of crying at the plea that Forster puts in the mouth of the wise Meg--"only connect," she says--only connect your own sufferings, your longings as a person, to other people's. That was what Nick believed: that human beings' were all pretty much alike, and that they all had similar needs; and to be free they only had to recognize those needs, not be ashamed...
...hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside the casement was missing, and the Florida police declared that there was as yet no reason to connect the two cases. One other puzzling fact: Stone-house's wife, who has stuck to her assumption that he drowned at sea, first denied and then later admitted that she had taken out some $160,000 in insurance policies on her husband's life in recent months...
Harvard controlled the ball in the first half but did not connect until halfback Brian O'Connor dented the net from 15 yards out after 30 minutes of play. The Blue tied the score minutes later when an attempted shot drew Crimson goalie Fred Herold away from the net and an Eli tallied...
Fiorello! is based on the early career of Fiorello H. LaGuardia up to the start of his successful campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933. His biography is a mere thread of a plot to connect a series of vignettes about fun-loving politicians in the 1920s. In addition to being the best-written parts of the show, these vignettes are irresistable in the way they seem also to satirize recent events. The claims of Tammany officials that they afforded various luxuries on their comparatively modest salaries by saving the pennies earned by, for example, returning empty milk...
...pollsters found that most Americans now connect the word conservative more with social morality than with political ideology. Such traditional benchmarks as attitudes toward capitalism and big business no longer help much to define the country politically. While three out of four of the conservative majority said that they were willing to make sacrifices to preserve the free enterprise system, 54% expressed anger and hostility toward big business-as did 58% of the nonconservatives...