Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday, when a real earthquake, the most deadly since 1923, roared through the Kobe area, something happened to the little rooms that never happens in the simulator machines. Their roofs fell in. By the tens of thousands. Where each house stood, there is now just a brown or blue blanket of tile, settled almost gently over a wreckage of wood, plaster and human bodies...
...always freezing cold down there--he kept the windows open, even in the deepest months of winter. Under his blanket he would lie on a forest green, spartanly cushioned sofa, tilting his body perpetually side-ways to face the television set. And although he had a yen for the shows of his younger days--"Hogan's Heroes," and "Quincy," and "The Streets of San Francisco," oh, and John Wayne movies of every make and description--they would be bumped aside quite often for ESPN, when the spirit moved...
...creak down the thirteen or fourteen steps of the basement staircase, and he'd recognize "Thunderfoot" from the size-eleven heaviness of my movements, calling out that nickname to reintroduce me again to his world. I'd grab my own blanket from the closet at the back of the room, and he'd make sure I had socks on my feet before he'd allow me to stay; after that, I was free to plop myself into one of the upholstered chairs nearer the television, or perhaps settle for the carpeting in front of the coffee table...
...that killed him became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton a fascination with the contradictory imperatives of China's huge energy needs and its desire to meet them "without rendering its cities unfit for life...
...That offended me--that he would make a blanket statement like that," Gilchrist says...