Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Ben-Gurion, the legendary founder of Israel and the nation's Prime Minister at the time, surveyed a group of photographers who had clamored into his office to record a ceremonial event. Noting that TIME's David Rubinger was absent, Ben-Gurion quipped, "Where's the one with the ginger beard...
Wednesday, 3--In perhaps the greatest prank of all time, students put chisels to the John Harvard Statue, scratching the "o" from "founder", changing "1638" to "1636", and adding after "John Harvard" the inscription "--as modeled by Sherman Hoar, student...
Where does the world's foremost designer of high-speed computers get his inspiration? Apparently deep in a dirt tunnel beneath his Wisconsin home, according to John Rollwagen, the chairman of Cray Research. As Rollwagen tells it, Seymour Cray, the company's elusive founder, has been dividing his time between building the next generation of supercomputers and digging an underground tunnel that starts below his Chippewa Falls house and heads toward the nearby woods. "He's been working at it for some time now," says Rollwagen, who reports that the tunnel is 8 ft. high, 4 ft. wide and lined...
...current surge of voyaging voyeurs, Trips is trying a different style and message. Call it discomfort chic. Published by the khaki-clothing chain Banana Republic, Trips is for the wanderlusty adventurer accustomed to sharing hotel space with all manner of wildlife. Editor in Chief and Banana Republic Founder Mel Ziegler, a former newspaper reporter, dismisses most travel writing as "dull and antiseptic" and describes his entry as the equivalent of a "bunch of friends at a dinner table swapping really good travel tales." The inaugural issue has more ads for Jeeps than jewels, and few ads of any kind that...
...transmission and even a refrigerator have been heaved out of high-rise windows, narrowly missing the cruisers. The Guardian Angels have taken to patrolling the buses, but drivers complain that the red-bereted figures make them a more attractive target. On the Guardians' first bus patrol two weeks ago, Founder Curtis Sliwa and his squad hit the deck along with terrified passengers when a lead pipe smashed through a window and the bus was showered with rocks...