Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first atomic bomb--a primordial burst of energy on the predawn New Mexico desert, a man-made fire bright enough to flicker in reflection off the moon--Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell sought out his immediate superior, Major General Leslie R. Groves. Groves was commander of the top-secret Manhattan Project, which had been commissioned and funded--with $2 billion--to try to build such a bomb. "When Farrell came up to me," Groves remembered, "his first words were, 'The war is over.' My reply was, 'Yes, after we drop two bombs on Japan.'" This was the morning of July...
Such a response had been anticipated by General Groves, who argued all along to the Manhattan Project's civilian overseers that at least two atomic bombs would be necessary to effect Japan's surrender: the first to demonstrate the awful destructive power of a nuclear weapon and the second to convince the Japanese military that there were more where that came from...
Married to Caperton in 1990, Worby seemed ill-fitted to the role from the start. An outsider from New York in a rural state, distressed that her new role was hobbling her career in music, she pined for the cultural environment of Manhattan, where she maintains an apartment. She sought a conducting job in Little Rock, Arkansas, but lost out when some board members attributed her success with the Wheeling Symphony to her marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West...
Some of these suspicions arise naturally from Carcaterra's incredible first-person tale. He and his three best friends, so he says in the book, grow up in Hell's Kitchen, a working-class neighborhood on the West Side of midtown Manhattan. An adolescent prank in the summer of 1967 goes terribly amiss and causes serious injury to an elderly man. As a result, the four friends are sent to an upstate New York correctional facility for boys, where they are repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured, physically and mentally, by four sadistic guards...
...author thus dismisses objections from the Manhattan D.A.'s office that Michael, with only six months' experience there, could never have been assigned to a homicide case. Such nitpickers are missing the point. In reality, as opposed to the book, Michael was not a six-month assistant D.A., Carcaterra says, and he was not necessarily working in Manhattan either. "The what, where and when these things happened," he insists, "were not as important to me as the fact that they did happen...