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Word: corneres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jordan swings into his spacious office, a six-window, high-status corner formerly occupied by the likes of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig, but, he insists, the parallel stops there. He loosens his tie, takes a fast look at the in basket, then lopes into the Roosevelt Room for the daily 8 a.m. meeting of senior advisers. He takes his place at the big table, leaving Presidential Counsel Robert Lipshutz to preside, but Jordan's presence spills beyond his chair. He is recognized as the ascendant power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Hannibal Astride the Potomac | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...corner a bronze Etruscan mirror, probably deliberately broken in antiquity, according to Beale, awaits repair. The glue formerly used to piece it together has dried out, but the new plastic adhesives used in its place won't relinquish its hold so fast...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Obscured By The Fogg | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...atmosphere. Yet the preventives, like their medical counterparts, often have unexpected side effects. Black rubber, which is often used to cushion picture frames from handling shocks in transit, tarnishes the metal. An experiment with a copper dish and this "dark enemy" goes on under a glass cover in a corner. And the lauded modern plastic adhesives, though stabler than old synthetics, tend to deteriorate in Ultra-Violet light. Bronze or some other chemically sensitive material is often transported in molded polystyrene, for protection. Chemistry. That is the keywork in the conservator's lab. Bottles and bottles of the most modern...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Obscured By The Fogg | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...tickles. A series of poorly received commercials condoning racism were retrieved with a switch-around antagonism: a black dude named Jim Brown comes out and becons the T.V. audience to give these poor untalented white folks a job. Pointing to a group of uncoordinated, spastic white people in the corner of the stage, Jim Brown moans: "They can't do nothin', there. They can't boogie, they can't play hoops, shake their bootie..they can't do nothing." Even the silly "Maltese Toilet", a satire on the falcon of that lineage, was retrieved by a wonderful impersonation of Bogart...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Your Move | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...still knows almost everything that happens within the country. He knows about the most important killings. Even when he is sitting in his office and smiles to reassure someone he has ordered picked up, one of his own men on a chair in the corner already knows that the prearranged signals have been given to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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