Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN...
...about 380 suicides. But there have been fears about the tower from the start. It was designed by Bridge Builder Gustave Eiffel in a competition for the Paris Exposition of 1889, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution (among the losing ideas: an oversized guillotine, a giant garden sprinkler poised over the city). There were dire predictions that the structure would attract lightning and somehow kill all the fish in the Seine. Builder Eiffel displayed his disdain for doomsayers by working and entertaining guests in an apartment he had constructed at the top. He was right: heavy storms...
...parts subsidiary that had some stock traded on the over-the-counter exchange. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is supervising another probe. Finally, the New York State senate committee on crime and correction is examining the possibility that organized crime may be linked to the operations of Madison Square Garden Corp., another G&W affiliate. Jeremiah B. McKenna, general counsel to the committee, dismisses inquiring reporters with a cryptic comment: "We're coming at the organized-crime aspect of it from a different angle that I can't mention...
...Montreux Palace hotel, where he and his wife Vera occupied apartments for the past 18 years, Nabokov wrote, composed chess problems and pondered the secrets of entomology -often while seated on garden benches. Out of his deep knowledge of language and literature, he designed a fictive looking-glass world whose seriousness was lightened by ingenious wordplay and metaphors. He was a sturdy, athletic figure who in summer could be seen chasing butterflies in Alpine meadows...
Millions of stay-at-homes will dance to this same rhythm. To them, summer supper does not mean a familial gathering around the groaning board, with Granny presiding over steaming tureens of garden-fresh vegetables. It means a quick take-out order from the local Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut, with plenty of potato chips and soft drinks to stave off the pangs until Dad carts the meal home. The kitchen is where the wrappings are thrown away...