Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than two beverages in an area fenced off from the rest of the festivities. While we understand his concern about binge drinking and underage consumption, the current system treats drinkers like lepers and needs to be revised. Either allow drinkers to roam free, or turn Springfest into a BYOB affair and free-up extra money to spend on entertainment...
...Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they been anywhere else, those of us living down by the River would never have noticed...
...Eagles put one run on the scoreboard in the bottom of the frame, but Thoke quickly ended the affair. Thoke gave up just three hits, two walks and one earned run in six innings while striking out 10 batters for the third time this season. She was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week yesterday, and she currently leads the league in strikeouts with 125 Ks in 114 innings...
...pregnant and that George is a much more supportive prenatal companion than Vince. Maybe, she thinks, he'd be a better father too. As for sex, well, as someone once said, nobody's perfect. And George does encouragingly tell her that he once had a not entirely disagreeable heterosexual affair...
...takes. The pair were going for spontaneity, and the effort paid off. Despite the weight of their history--bands like Pearl Jam have borrowed from them, movies like This Is Spinal Tap have parodied them--their Walking into Clarksdale is a relatively loose-limbed, unencumbered affair. There are no sprawling Stairway to Heaven-type pieces here, only songs that are for the most part relatively modest and direct. This isn't hard rock, but it is solid...