Word: loree
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...might picture a political dynasty headed for a humiliating fall. But as India votes over the next three weeks in its first general election of the 21st century, the truth is that the ardent reception the Gandhis are attracting is more about their place in Indian political lore than about Congress's current electoral standing. The Gandhis and Congress won India its independence and gave it leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi (not a relation), Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv. They ruled India for 45 of its first 50 years and laid the foundations...
...Local lore has it that a Surat entrepreneur, returning with a boatload of diamond cutters from East Africa, set up the city's polishing industry in 1901. Business picked up in the 1970s, when India began cutting low-quality gemstones and exporting them to the U.S. Although Bombay is the commercial center of India's diamond business, its militant labor unions have increasingly driven the polishers to Surat, where wages for diamond cutters are lower, at $2,500-$3,500 a year, and workers are more pliable. In the past, Surat's diamond industry has been a hot spot...
...lore has it that to foil concealed recording devices, Massino went so far as to order his men never to utter his name during a conversation and instead to touch one of their ears to indicate Big Joey. It was a bit of theater he borrowed from Gigante, whose cronies used to tap their chin to signify their boss. The Bonannos' Old-World code of discipline was such that until recently not a single "made guy" (ranking gang member) had ever cooperated with law enforcers. As the other bosses bunked down in prison, that helped the Bonannos become...
...other words, it’s not the kind of thing Flint youths do for fun. For that, Flint-ers become gym rats and head indoors, dreaming of royal green jerseys and imagining themselves with a place in Michigan State’s basketball (and hockey) lore. Other Michiganians—like Brighton (Mich.) High baseball legend and current Dallas Cowboy Drew Henson—eventually give up the gloves and take on other endeavors...
...closing of J.F. Olsson’s—a fixture on Brattle Street for 107 years. Financial troubles led the once popular Wursthaus restaurant to disappear after 79 years. And just a few years ago, Harvard Square’s Tasty restaurant, still a legend in Harvard lore, was replaced by that symbol of corporate decadence—Abercrombie and Fitch...