Word: trove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California's obsession with campaign cash is compounded by the growth of so- called transfers, money controlled by legislative leaders and doled out to loyal supporters. Though both parties employ the system, by far the biggest transfers trove belongs to Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, a Democrat, who raised $4.2 million in contributions that he could use in his own or other 1984 campaigns. Brown pumped nearly $1.2 million of that bundle into 14 other races, making the powerful speaker California's largest single political contributor. "It's an absolute arms race," admits Brown, who only last December picked...
...tools are the carcasses of TSF's past, and the eagle-eyed student can detect flairs of John Hughes' best absurdist work, a soupcon of Risky Business's self-knowing psychological slant on civilization and its discontents, and a brief but illuminating pillaging of Woody Allen's treasure trove of neuroses (cf: post-tennis scene with Diane Keaton on her terrace in Annie Hall...
...language well before he moved with his family to the U.S. in 1919. Now a professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin, he began putting together a team of more than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break...
...Titanic plowed into an iceberg and slowly slipped beneath the waves, the luxury liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship and its trove of Edwardian-era relics have been shielded from the destructive effects of sunlight, heat, algae and parasites. "If you had your wildest dream of how you were going to find that ship, that is exactly how we found it," said an ebullient Robert Ballard, expedition leader and a marine geologist...
...appeared to be authentic too. Yet questions continued to be asked about the motives of the Bosserts, who claimed to have sheltered the fugitive, and those of the Mengele family in West Germany, which apparently sent both funds and emissaries to the Nazi doctor, all the while concealing a trove of revealing photographs and documents. Because the fugitive apparently had left no recent dental records, forensic investigators admitted they could never declare with 100% certainty that the remains they had examined were those of Mengele...