Word: chestnut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Street name changes are rare in Cambridge, according to City Councillor Sam Seidel, who is also a member of the Government Rules and Operations Committee. Plympton Street, originally called Chestnut Street., was given its current moniker...
Working-class champion vs. faculty-club favorite is a Democratic chestnut. Obama descends from a long line of forefathers: Jerry Brown, Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley, Howard Dean. Principled, bookish, often aloof--nearly every campaign produces one, and they'd all be President if Presidents were chosen by the salons at Charlie Rose's round table. But Presidents are, in fact, chosen over the dinner tables of ordinary folks, who have an enduring immunity to the charms of such candidates. Obama, however, is a debugged and turbocharged version of the old model; he is expanding the affluent constituency...
According to the Cambridge Historical Society, the street, originally called Chestnut St., was already renamed once in 1875 for Dr. Sylvanus Plympton, who owned a house that used to occupy the block between Plympton St. and Linden...
...justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil and van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches were found in a parking lot of a Zurich psychiatric hospital. The two other looted paintings, Cezanne's The Boy in the Red Vest and Degas' Count Lepic and His Daughters, are still missing...