Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesus Christ, the guy's a monster...big. Fellas, this guy can make love to the Lincoln Tunnel and all of New Jersey begs for more. Big? Sheesh. C'mon this...
...Federal Reserve, which controls the nation's money supply, convinces the public that it intends to stand firm with a tight-money policy and squeeze inflation out of the economy. Says a key Reagan policymaker as he points to the infamous light at the end of the tunnel: "If the Federal Reserve can stick with it for six months, then its credibility will be re-established and down will come interest rates...
Like writing, wrestling requires great individual effort. One belongs to a team, but Irving's vivid image is a long tunnel of lonely concentration. He began "rolling around" at Exeter...
...until, at 21. he became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell in love. "Silence. The sound of dust settling... I waited. It came-the dull tentative growl of presses. It was slow. It gathered confidence. The hollow sound, like a train approaching a tunnel, hit its stride, and the floor, the walls, the ceiling trembled as though in fear of the news they had spawned." He lasted a year...
...seeing and serving the needs of future generations without flinching at the uprooting or expense he inflicted on the present one. When he died last week of congestive heart failure at 92, still in office as a $35,000-a-year consultant to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, his legacy included: a metropolitan highway system in New York City bigger than the one in Los Angeles; the Lincoln Center cultural complex; the United Nations headquarters; and his last project, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Moses left behind twelve bridges, 35 highways, 658 playgrounds and more...