Word: ens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard women's varsity sailing team capped a successful 1981 fall slate in fine form this weekend, dunking nine other teams en route to copping the Victorian Coffee Urn at the New England Fall Championship regatta on the Harbor Basin...
...French jewelry firm of Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...
Rallis, 62, is a colorless but competent politician who became Prime Minister in 1980, when Caramanlis moved up to the presidency. He has tried to fright en audiences with predictions of the chaos that would result from a PASOK victory...
...escaped a guilty verdict on the basis of it. One was Richard Lawrence, the house painter who fired at Andrew Jackson during a funeral service in the Capitol rotunda in 1835. The other was John Schrank, the saloonkeeper who shot Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee as the former President was en route to deliver a campaign speech...
...kept working: Matisse and Bonnard on their chosen imagery of Mediterranean delight, Picasso at his distorted, edgily claustrophobic figures. But with the galleries closed, censorship rampant and the choice of death or exile staring at so many artists, what "art world," as a system, could survive? The surrealists left en masse for New York; in the words of the English critic Cyril Connolly, it was "closing time in the gardens of the West...