Word: trove
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think for a second that this man does not have a treasure-trove of memories from his first three years. He can recall every detail of his first start--replacing the injured Jay Snowden '96 against Holy Cross in 1996--even right down to the wind speed at Fitton Field...
...with the insight that "Banana" is not a designer, and damned with a masochistic willingness to bear the underworld, still head for the designer labels of Filene's Basement. Originally established as a wholesale repository for excess merchandise from the department store upstairs, the Basements "Vault" is a treasure trove of designer clothing. It's all here, gold and Gucci, if a few seasons unfashionable...
There's a group of horn-rimmed scenesters that hang out at Buckeroo's Mercantile on Mass. Avenue who know cool things, throw cooler parties, and are the guardians of a trove of local treasures. Last week, when I dropped in, Diane was going about her merry way dusting feathers and listening to the faintest, scantest little French fairy-voice. I live for moments like that: walking into a room and being hit in the heart by a most unexpected, most dreamed-of sound. That was the beginning of my controlled adoration of Suzi Lee, Slide bandmember, who has just...
...files kept by the KGB's foreign intelligence service. Disillusioned by the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he set about copying in longhand the highly sensitive files in his care and stuffing his notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin...
...unusually rich trove of fossils has been found at two sites in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountains. One, known as Gran Dolina, has yielded 800,000-year-old hominids that Spanish researchers believe are a new species, perhaps the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. Named Homo antecessor (Latin for explorer or pioneer), they had a primitive jaw and prominent brow ridges but a projecting face, sunken cheekbones and tooth development similar to that of modern humans...