Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agassiz Neighborhood, is considered to be the worst offender in recent years in trampling over neighborhood sensibilities. Lesley is aggressive when acquiring residential properties for institutional use and in altering the physical and social character of the neighborhood. Less than ten years ago, Lesley was confined to the corner of Oxford and Everett Streets, but not it covers most of Everett and Wendall Streets and a two-block frontage on Oxford Street from Hammond to Sacremento. Harvard, however, has taken most of the heat for neighborhood intrusion, largely because it is a bigger target and because the University's holdings...
...lives, or at least to feel that they are not the victims of forces beyond their control. Neighborhood stability and preservation of the quality of life motivates these people. They want to live among friends and neighbors, in a residential neighborhood with small scaled buildings, children, green space, playgrounds, corner stores and the certainty that it will remain that way. Large buildings, buildings filled with transients, people who have no long term interest in the area, heavy traffic, loss of open space, are all changes they resist...
...minutes later, Dematteo grabbed an Eli kick and slanted into the left corner of the endzone for his second tally of the day. Wing forward Dave Wagner's conversion kicks upped the final score...
...Snow continues to operate as the self-assigned recording secretary of the last gentleman's club on earth. There he sits, at 69, in his cracking leather chair in the corner, this son of a shoe-factory clerk from Leicester, watching the Old Parties of British aristocracy come and go, fretting over the State of the World, then settling down to a civilized meal as if it were their last: "Decanters on tables, lights beaming off cutlery and peach-fed cheeks...
...consumed in the U.S. A special gasoline tax should be imposed on every gallon sold. This "conservation fee" would lead to car pooling and increased use of rails and other mass transit. The tax would cut down on the Sunday joyride, the midnight trip to the corner drugstore to get a pack of cigarettes, the national restlessness that led one observer to update Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum for America: "I move, therefore I'm alive." And the tax would be effective. The Federal Energy Administration reckons that every penny of such a surcharge would reduce gasoline consumption...