Word: cora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have made up my mind to begin my account upon the first occasion when I truly knew where things stood with me, that is, that afternoon of the day my father, Arthur Harkness, was taken to the Quincy graveyard and buried between my mother, Cora Mary Harkness, and his first wife, Ella Harkness...
...Woolworth stores, America's icons, are closing [BUSINESS, July 28]? Oh, no! So many memories for me and my family. Great Aunt Cora introduced me to Woolworth's in Los Angeles when I was four. Thereafter, Woolworth's, except for the demands of the ice-cream truck, captured my weekly allowance. Christmas shopping was a magnificent, looked-forward-to event, carefully planned and executed at Woolworth's every Christmastime throughout my childhood. Mine were always the best presents--or so I thought. Then, just last year, my daughter told me that she had gone to Woolworth's for the lipsticks...
Blige grew up in the Schlobohm low-income housing project in Yonkers, New York. She and her three siblings were raised mostly by their mother Cora; her father left for a while when she was young but later returned. Blige says the projects were full of fighting and "negativity"; she found an outlet by studying music at Lincoln High School in Yonkers, a public school that specializes in the performing arts. When Blige was 17, she recorded a karaoke-style version of Anita Baker's Caught Up in the Rapture in a mall one day, and after the tape...
...from the late '60s until just a few years ago the ninth circle of Times Square. "You could buy anything you wanted, whether it was drugs or girls or boys or green cards or telephone cards. You really felt like you were walking through this hellish zone," says Cora Cahan, president of the New 42nd Street Inc., which is overseeing the restoration of seven of the strip's nine theaters. Back in 1978 more than twice as many street crimes were reported on the block as on any other block in the entire city. In 1984 the city- planning-commission...
...version of Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street, is a member of Disney's board. Stern told Eisner about the New Amsterdam. On a grim winter day, Stern and Cora Cahan took Eisner, his wife and son on a tour of the theater, shuttered since...