Word: ajar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detective Kate Battan still sees it in her sleep--still sees what she saw that first day in April, when she was chosen to lead the task force that would investigate the massacre. Bullet holes in the banks of blue lockers. Ceiling tiles ajar where kids had scampered to hide in the crawl space. Shoes left behind by kids who literally ran out of them. Dead bodies in the library, where students cowered beneath tables. One boy died clenching his eyeglasses, and another gripped a pencil as he drew his last breath. Was he writing a goodbye note...
...think I know someone in the Signet, or maybe I know someone who knows someone in the Signet, or maybe it's their former roommate? In any event, I'm feeling literary and want to get the night started off right. I just walk up, find the door slightly ajar as a Signet member exits and make my entrance. The majority of people gather in the salon, a large room towards the back of the house. White wine flows freely into glasses (no plastic cups are to be found). As the mysterious stares multiply, I fortunately spy someone from tutorial...
...Bush stayed home and didn't open the door, he didn't slam it either. He left it ajar and started flirting. The G.O.P. moneymen are a skittish lot: they love a winner, hate being left behind, and once a bunch start to go, the rest tend to follow. This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters. The other...
Student rooms are spacious, and some even feature kitchenettes. The renovation maintained the House's character as a former Radcliffe dormitory; door hooks hearken back to the days when doors had to be kept ajar when male visitors were present. The House's master is the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; don't be surprised if you find yourself in a conversation about Antarctica with the McCarthys...
...Student rooms are spacious, and some even feature kitchenettes. The renovation maintained the House's character as a former Radcliffe dormitory; mirrors in the hallways allow for the inspection of one's hemline before going out, and door hooks hearken back to the days when doors had to be ajar when male visitors were present. The House's master is the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; don't be surprised if you find yourself in a conversation about Antarctica with the McCarthys...