Word: basement
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...evening of the caucus, Kalal goes early to the small meeting room in the basement of the town hall. As chairman in 1976, he played host to fewer than 20 people in his living room. Tonight, with a seven-man race and all the press attention, Kalal is expecting a bigger turnout. He sets out 60 chairs, then places a Reagan flyer on every seat. "If people show up," Kalal observes, "someone will just have to stand...
MANY YEARS before they committed Chuck Green, he would wander Harlem streets, listening to the city, tapping. One night, from a dingy basement cafe came an odd, whining tune: "Got no maps on my taps." Green liked the song, liked singing it to himself. During the years in the hospital, when his mind was clearly out of synch with reality, his feet kept tapping in perfect rhythm to his song. His tap dancing, which had earned him his living on the outside, now became a form of therapy on the inside...
...devices basically resemble the oil burners in any homeowner's basement. But to remove the sludge, the furnaces use either filters or vaporizers, which heat the fuel so that the dirt and grime drop to the bottom...
...police administration currently works out of the basement of Grays Hall in the Yard, which is crowded and has no windows. Patrolmen, who have their lockers in the basement of Thayer, have consistently complained about their separation from the main police administration...
...feeling of being part of a stream of coopers, of having Jordan alums living in Central Square and Somerville drop by for meals or birthday parties or just company. It transcends the craziness, found in the graffiti sheets in the second floor bathroom or on the walls in the basement study room (the dungeon) or in dinner table conversation ("I'm in this course, see, history of psychology, and the main text is by a guy named Boring. No kidding. And when Boring taught the course 30 years ago, he used a book by Dull and Dull." A voice from...