Word: erection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each Latin-American nation has its own name for the urban poor--Argentina has its villas miserias, Brazil its favelas. Mexico its colonias proletarias. In Managua, the poor are called "parachutists," because so many of them have "landed" on unoccupied land to erect their shacks and begin the continual search for work that Iured them from the countryside. The wave of migration began about 1950 and has continued to the present; the poor, 70 per cent of them outside the capital, now constitute fully one-half of Managua's 400,000 population...
Last week, Law School professor Paul Freund had occasion to recall his second meeting with Oliver Wendell Holmes. "We went up to the second floor study, where Holmes was seated, starched and stiffly erect in his ninety-third year, behind his desk. He wore a black cutaway and striped trousers, his skin was parchment, his hair luxuriant and silver, his cavalryman's moustachioes abundantly flowing." Freund remembered...
...snowy morning last week Roger Porter, 28, hauled his lean frame out of bed and into the darkness of his Alexandria, Va., apartment. It was 5:45. He struggled through a few pushups, stood groggily erect and then touched his toes while his wife Ann scurried to dress and prepare breakfast...
...manager in 1962 to draw comprehensive plans for Harvard Square and watch over the Square's development, the task force, headed by Oliver Brooks, recruited business and community leaders and in December released a preliminary draft for use of the Square. It was expected that if anyone planned to erect any structure in the Square the task force would be called in first to survey the situation. But while the force was finishing its policy plan Sheldon Cohen, a task force member himself, went about unobstructed in his unauthorized addition to the Out of Town News Service kiosk. Brooks admits...
When realtor John Briston Sullivan wanted to erect the Treadway on city land between Mt. Auburn and Eliot St. in 1961, he had to go to Crane for the needed parcel. And in a unique deal Crane engineered the sale of the "air rights" to Sullivan to build the hotel provided he leave some municipal parking spots underneath. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 Crane was duly rewarded with some legal business at the other end of the state. Although Harvard had at the time offered to build a much larger parking garage on the site and then give...