Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...poke through the white. Many of the sport's ranked players trained on public courts; most of them work for a living and pay their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner, a steam fitter, a hairdresser, the maitre d' at New York City's Rainbow Room and Wall Street types...
...Mayor Feinstein prided herself on being a hands-on administrator, often to the distress of other officials. When a foul-up occurred, she was apt to respond with a blistering dressing down or at times even a bout of temper behind closed doors. Once she summoned police chief Cornelius Murphy to her office posthaste...
...John Leverett 1708-1724Benjamin Wadsworth 1725-1737Edward Holyoke 1737-1769Samuel Locke 1770-1773Samuel Langdon 1774-1780Joseph Willard 1781-1804Samuel Webber 1806-1810John Thornton Kirkland 1810-1828Josiah Quincy 1829-1845Edward Everett 1846-1849Jared Sparks 1849-1853James Walker 1853-1860Cornelius Conway Felton 1860-1862Thomas Hill 1862-1868Charles William Eliot 1869-1909Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1909-1933James Bryant Conant 1933-1953Nathan Marsh Pusey 1953-1971Derek...
Chiang contends that despite past sins, the local ecology has not suffered very much. Some scientists agree. Says Cornelius Sullivan of the University of Southern California, who studies the algae that live in and under McMurdo Sound ice: "A few places are filthy. But most of the water is still absolutely pristine." Nonetheless, the National Science Foundation could do much better. One thing that will help: about $10 million was added to the agency's budget for 1990, bringing it to $152 million, and much of the new money will go toward protecting the environment...