Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...
...Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful parables about death as creative transcendence. Each offers a unique frisson, to be relived on Monday morning at the playground or around the water cooler...
...process continues, the earth's rotation causes the column of rising air to spiral. Fueled by a constant supply of hot tropical air, the storm feeds on itself, generating roaring winds that swirl around its "eye." When the system reaches cooler and dryer air on land, it begins to lose force. By then, however, the storm may have released energy equivalent to that of about 9 million Hiroshima-type atom bombs...
...make this short, not all of us made it bad to Nanki's house in Tuckers Town that night. Zelda and I golfed one round then took he speed boat out to the tune of Kool and the Gang and a cooler of daiquiris. I may have been driving--I don't remember--but we seemed to be going up and down an awful...
...costly cooler was exposed by an anonymous whistle-blower who wrote a letter to Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Boxer of California. Further investigation revealed that eight smaller units were bought this year, without competitive bidding, at $12,000 apiece. Commodore Stuart Platt, the Navy's first "competition advocate general," called the $16,571 payment "ridiculous." As he inspected the unit in Norfolk last week, he promised, "We are not trying to sweep this under the rug. We are learning from our mistakes." Indeed, the amount of Navy purchases made through competitive bidding increased from 26% in 1982 to 38% last...