Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, Tip O'Neill takes the last approach, figuratively pulling up a chair at Barry's Corner, his old hangout in Cambridge, Mass., and regaling the reader with a string of let-me-tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed comments have provoked a flurry of attention and virtually guaranteed that it will be a commercial success. But the book is more than just a settling of old scores. It adds up to a stout defense of two now tarnished notions that O'Neill came to epitomize: the New Deal liberal ideal that government...
...common sense, steering by the seats of their pants and the exquisite balance God gave such young animals. They would take the stretch of rippled pavement with whoops of joy, as if they were World War I aces plunging through the cumulus clouds over St.-Mihiel, round the corner with hardly a glance down, whish by Ord Martin's garage and then bank left for the dive downhill on the Red Baron's Flying Circus...
...that corner was a weather-beaten house with hollyhocks out back, like so many other tiny homes in a vast land that time seemed to have punished. Nobody in the dawn patrol paid much attention as they trimmed their machines for the final approach to landing and learning...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
...first six-month trial will be to assess the vaccine's safety. If all goes well, scientists will eventually try to determine its efficacy in preventing infection by administering it to large groups of people at high risk of developing AIDS. The answer is hardly around the corner. Says Fauci: "It will be a considerable time, probably the mid-1990s, before any vaccine, including this one, will be ready for general...