Word: booth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intends to do what she always does before presidential elections: head to the local library two weeks before the vote. "I pull out two weeks of newspapers and read about the issues," she says. "But I probably won't make a decision until I'm in the voting booth...
...this year, Riley also set up a booth to register bikes as first-year students arrived and initiated safety presentations by police officers in numerous dorms and houses...
...took a brief afternoon stroll over to the rustic booth that has been in the Dunster courtyard for the past week. The booth is called a sukkah, the traditional temporary Jewish "home" constructed for the seven-day holiday of Sukkot each fall...
That said, the Dunster sukkah has some problems. If you missed Sunday's festival (as I did), you would be hard pressed to know what in God's name that booth is doing in the middle of the courtyard. No signs hang on the makeshift walls, and I found no obvious notices around the house explaining the object and its purpose. Unless such displays are informative and accessible, they are of little worth, and possibly even offensive...
Every night I drank beer at Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading...