Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight, Gooden and his closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve...
University spokesman Tom Debley said 11 people were hurt in the protest over Berkeley's $2.4 billion in South Africa-related stock. Another spokesman, Ray Colvig, said one of them was a police officer hurt by a flying brick...
...Each trade agreement, each bank loan, each new investment is another brick in the wall of our continued existence." (J.B. Vorster, former Prime Minister of South Africa...
...more extensive ring damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures reduced the resiliency and hardness of the rings. At 29 degrees , the anticipated temperature of the O rings the next morning, he feared that getting the rings to seal gaps in the joints might be like "trying to shove a brick into a crack," although it should be like "a sponge...
Maybe the intership program need not be totally scrapped. But to rush along the existing internships to aid the privileged establishment in South Africa under the false label of reform is at best a cynical ploy against student activists and at worst another brick in the wall of the apartheid state...