Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...packed Hillside, New Jersey, courtroom last night, a judge dropped animal-cruelty charges against Frank Balun, the 69-year-old gardener who became a cause celebre after he whacked a rat to death with a broom for eating his tomato plants. Ironically, Balun got noticed -- and risked a year in jail and $2,500 in fines -- after he called the Associated Humane Societies to get the carcass. The AHS promptly filed charges against him. The judge found a loophole in state law that allows slaughter if vermin damage crops or livestock. But it took a plea-in-verse from local...
...checkerboard Con-Tact paper, and Dusty began peeling it off. Then he became intrigued with the spilled cereal and started stomping it to bits. At this point his mother interceded. In a firm but calm voice she told her son to get the stand-up dust pan and broom and clean up the mess. Dusty got out the dust pan but forgot the rest of the order. Within seconds he was dismantling the plastic dust pan, piece by piece. His next project: grabbing three rolls of toilet paper from the bathroom and unraveling them around the house...
...doubleheader sweep. Not exactly what a team wants when it's on the wrong end of the broom, especially when that team is Harvard and it is preparing for its Ivy opener against League-leading Princeton...
...president has a Herculean problem of cleaning his inherited Augean stables across the University. The only tools he will require are an ax, a broom and a shovel, and perhaps the prayers of all who truly care for Harvard...
Workers demonstrated the production of face cloths, baby-bibs, and--at what Sullivan called "the crowning point" of the tour--brooms. One employee offered to let Weld help him bind the corn stalks of a broom...