Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offered vast sums, like $200 million at a time, to be invested in things like Treasury bills," says a California banker. Adnan Kahsoggi, a Saudi, has moved beyond U.S. bank deposits to buy U.S. banks. Over the past two years, he has purchased controlling interests in two headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif.: Security National, which has assets of $115 million, and the Bank of Contra Costa, with assets of $22.8 million...
Divided down the middle like the two halves of a walnut, the cerebral hemispheres are anatomically separate, but are cross-wired so that each controls the opposite side of the body-the left monitoring the right side, the right regulating the left. One hemisphere-the left in most people-is dominant and contains the areas that are associated with speech and hearing and involved with analytical tasks such as solving an algebra problem. The other governs spatial perception, synthesis of ideas and aesthetic appreciation of art or music...
...plaid wool shirt, Ash looked deceptively casual. He sat at the head of the walnut conference table. In front of him was a five-page agenda for two full days of work. "Gentlemen," Ash said quietly to the 14 men, "let's get going. We have a budget to prepare." That first session lasted seven hours. It was the same the next day-isolating the trouble spots like the massive defense expenditures, then hammering them back into place, billion by billion, even by millions...
...face was as worn as the limestone landscape that he loved and praised, massive, brown, seamed like a walnut...
...exactly 9:40 a.m., the opposing teams of lawyers entered the ornate, high-ceilinged federal courtroom and took up their positions at neighboring walnut tables. On one side sat six lawyers for President Richard Nixon, headed by University of Texas Professor Charles Alan Wright; on the other, the special Watergate prosecutor, Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox, and three assistants. For 20 minutes they sat waiting in their blue leather chairs. Wright adjusted his tweed vest. Cox toyed with his half-moon spectacles. Finally, at 10, to the bailiff's ceremonial cry of "God save the United States of America...