Word: manhattanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police in many areas chose to permit the effort. In New York, Landscape Artist Alan Gussow, who conceived the project, said he was "staggered" by the response. As she stenciled an image of herself and her husband near Wall Street in Manhattan, Artist Janna Josephson noted, "I want to make an impact, to startle people, to make them know that this could be ground zero...
...penalty was a stern warning to financial journalists who may be tempted to trade on inside information. In a Manhattan courtroom, Federal Judge Charles Stewart last week sentenced J. Foster Winans, 37, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had been convicted of 59 counts of fraud and conspiracy, to a $5,000 fine, 18 months in prison and five years on probation...
...Oppenheimer, the charismatic master of Los Alamos, gave short shrift to those scientists working under him who urged that their creation not be used. Congressional committees, the first of them led by a Missouri Senator named Truman, had long been grumbling about the huge secret appropriations poured into the Manhattan Project and warning that the results had better be worth the $2 billion investment, which was serious money in those days. When the scientists succeeded, it became all but impossible to argue that their weapon, one that could prevent a bloody invasion, should be shelved...
CONFESSIONS OF A HOOKER by Bob Hope as told to Dwayne Netland Doubleday; 230 pages; $17.95 Since he first visited an indoor driving range in Manhattan back in the '30s, the standup octogenarian has played on nearly 2,000 golf courses around the world. With an amalgam of Friars roast hostilities and fund-raiser geniality, Bob Hope says thanks for the memories to the pros and putters who have helped the game. Along the fairway he observes the links style of most Presidents since Eisenhower. When Ike met Hope in wartime Algiers, the general's first words were...
...what have Kings that privates have not too, save ceremony?" asked Shakespeare. Well, for starters, stretch limousines. All week long, shiny automotive chariots plied the broad avenues of Manhattan, bottling up traffic and leaving crowds of normally blaséNew Yorkers gawking. Hidden behind the limos' smoked-glass windows were leaders of 68 nations, convened to celebrate the 40th birthday of the United Nations...