Word: stall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, Sadat had seemed more interested in burnishing his diplomatic image than in destroying Israel. He managed to stall Libyan demands for merger with Egypt. He proposed the establishment of a Palestinian nation, which seemed to indicate that he was trying to separate Egypt's quarrel with Israel from Palestinian territorial demands that scarcely concerned Egypt. Only last week, in what seemed like the most conciliatory move of all, Cairo announced that the U.S.'s Bechtel Corp. had been chosen to construct a new $345 million pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...prove his story, Henley led police to a boat shed in a secluded section of Houston where Corll had rented a vacant boat stall. It was there, Henley said, that many of the victims would be found. Trusties from a local jail began digging, and within hours they had exhumed eight corpses from a 6-ft.-deep mass grave. All were teen-age boys; some were wrapped in plastic bags, others covered with lime to disguise the stench of decay. The corpses were stacked one above the other, separated only by thin layers of dirt...
Shadowy Figure. In addition to the three grave sites pointed out by Henley and Brooks, police learned from the boatyard manager that Corll had put his name on a waiting list for still another boat stall. Police were looking into the possibility of other burial grounds perhaps unknown to either Brooks or Henley. Ominously, Corll had once told Henley that some of his early victims were in California, and he may have killed before Henley and Brooks became his companions in blood...
...Boston council agreed to construct a central market in the city in 1634, but the market was not opened until 100 years later. In 1738, the market building was destroyed, but a new building was constructed, and in 1740 the first Faneuil Hall stall was leased...
...unexpected, as much of a stumbling block to credulity as most messiahs. His name is Simon Stern. He was born in 1899, the son of Polish immigrants to New York's Lower East Side. Simon's father works in a tailor shop. His mother tends a vegetable stall. Simon's life is devoted to a most worldly obsession-money...