Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, he and Nancy rode in a motorcade to downtown Los Angeles for a red-carpet reception at city hall and a lunch with businessmen and other admirers at the Biltmore Hotel. Jesse Unruh, a Democrat who ran against Reagan for Governor in 1970, had an imaginative compliment. Said Unruh: "You rarely get into trouble in the political field because of your enemies. It is the most difficult part of leadership to be able to say no to your friends." That, he added, was one thing Reagan had proved himself capable of doing...
...client sips a cup of peppermint tea, takes a shower, then pads along a plastic-covered carpet into a dim room lighted by two candles and filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish...
...ghetto and how it smells and falls apart. They'll tell you that looking you in the eye, and describe how much it hurts. Sure they know. All they have to do is turn on the television and watch Mrs. Middle Class vacuum her horribly dirt-ridden shag carpet to know. They watch and wonder why they live the way they...
...Army game, third of the season. Buckley looked like one of the best quarterbacks in the east. But late in the fourth quarter--after he had scored a pair of touchdowns and passed for 147 yds in the 15-10 Harvard upset--Buckley caught his knee on the astroturf carpet of Michie Stadium. The Crimson would lose two of its next three games, including an agonizing 7-3 squeaker in the rain to an inferior Princeton team...
...head dominates the exhibition. In one room there is a congress of his heads, white heads on pillars as if on spears, all facing each other in objective admiration. The ones in the center of the room are spotlit from the ceiling; their shadows make stars on the carpet. It is said that Alexander's real head slept with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under the pillow. But what went on inside...