Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he died in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev was officially a nonperson. Despite his eleven years as Soviet party chief, he was denied the usual honors of burial at the Kremlin Wall and was instead allotted a plot in the far corner of the Novodyevichy Cemetery, Moscow's second-ranking burial ground. The newspapers that had once headlined his speeches identified him in his death notice only as a "pensioner of the state...
...ranged from control of most of New York State's hydroelectric power to a virtual czardom over the city's public works and building projects. He pushed great roads in all directions from the hub of New York City. He created green and public parks in every corner of New York State. He spanned rivers with long, graceful suspension bridges, erected massive dams, carved playgrounds out of brick and granite so that city children would have a place...
...Butlers, who are putting two of their children through college, have made thrift the corner stone of their lives. "I'm always looking to use something in a creative way," says Mrs. Butler, 57, who works as a school teacher's aide. "I never buy anything that I can make for myself." She has recycled melted wax into candles, wraps gifts in old newspapers and never buys on credit. Still, the Butlers have been unable to set aside funds for retirement. "We had hoped that we would travel after we retired," says Mrs. Butler...
...immediate plans call for ten days of golf at the Eastward Ho Country Club and rest at his modest cottage in nearby South Chatham, Mass. After that, the "Silver Fox" plans to return to the firm of Hale & Dorr and his old corner suite on the 33rd floor at 28 State Street in downtown Boston. His colleagues are ready to welcome him back warmly. Though many did not sympathize with his client, most Boston lawyers agree that James Draper St. Clair performed well, even brilliantly at times, in the defense of Richard M. Nixon...
...like an electronic Hyde Park speaker's corner," said Shirley Simmons, a member of an off-off-Broadway repertory company planning to perform on public access. Indeed it is. Anyone can walk through the cablecaster's door, sign up for an available time slot, and go on the air (or, more precisely, through the wire) with any kind of show: Tom's neighborhood news, Dick's consumer reports or Uncle Harry's rendition of I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen...