Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday afternoon most of the miners were dead, and the survivors either fled to the hills or houses in Villa Carmen. Army troops pursued them and killed some men in their homes, arrested and tortured others and bayonetted many. They also decapitated the wounded. In the middle of the plaza they put dynamite in the mouth of one miner and blew him to pieces . . . They whipped children with cables and made them eat gun powder. They made young people lie down on broken glass and forced us to walk over them; afterwards the soldiers marched over them. At dawn...
...most happy fella. Take Broadway tickets. In 1953 it cost $7.20 for an orchestra seat to Cole Porter's musical Can-Can, starring Gwen Verdon. The 1981 revival (same show, same seat) costs $30 on a Saturday night. Taking a cab from Times Square to the elegant Plaza Hotel would have cost 60? in 1953, but today it is about $2.20, without traffic jams-or tip. Once at the Plaza, French pastries in the glow of the crystal hurricane lamps of the Palm Court come dear: $3.95 per gâteau, vs. $1.90. To top off the evening...
...once the honeymoon is over and tax time comes around, the newlyweds discover that the party is really over. If they both work and earn $20,000 apiece, together they pay Uncle Sam almost $1,700 more than if they had stayed single-making that bill at the Plaza seem like peanuts...
After meeting in Washington, D.C. with Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards and Myer Rashish '45, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. Yamani flew to New York several days ago, addressing the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) in a luncheon session yesterday at New York's Plaza Hotel...
Under Schubert's cautious guidance, Jesse improved enough in his first year to qualify in the spring of 1976 for the first Short Course nationals at Long Beach's Belmont Plaza. The swimming world had only six months to prepare itself after the diminutive ninth-grader's first performance in a major competition at the end of the following summer, Vassallo swam to his first national championship at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool...