Word: kirkland
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Although she said she cannot determine the full impact of the proposal, Spiegelman said that it would render a number of University structures including Adams House, Kirkland House and Memorial Church "nonconforming." This designation would mean that any substantial renovations to the buildings would require a special permit from the city, something Spiegelman termed a "substantial administrative zoning process...
...true that [under the new guidelines] you could not rebuild Kirkland House exactly the same as it is today," he said. But "the notion that Kirkland house is going to burn to the ground and be rebuilt exactly the same is fanciful...
When Reich tried to expose the pretentiousness of bold-type names at play, he chose an evening at the house of then AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena, and got just about everything wrong: the Kirklands aren't high society, and Irena is not a snooty Hungarian but a Czech survivor of the Holocaust who does her own cooking. She did not shout "No!" at Reich, grabbing his wrist to keep him from misusing the mint jelly, causing the table to go still, appalled by the "country bumpkin...
...patterns of words found in the Jewish Torah. Hmmm. Following an elaborate decoding system of my own creation, I have deduced that the letters in the name Michael Drosnin can be rearranged to spell out the mysterious phrase "Him conn'd Israel." Any message in that? ERIC BENDER Kirkland...
...fact that any house has three teams [in a sport] is great," Phillips adds. "The fact that Kirkland House had six [crew boats] was great. It's the combination of those two things, of winning and getting people...