Word: cupboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even sequential statements like "First put on your socks, then your shoes." Daily routines, such as Daddy or Mommy leaving for work and regular times for bed and meals, are usually nonexistent in these cramped, dangerous quarters where even the most conscientious mothers have trouble keeping food in the cupboard and steering clear of gang violence...
...know sensationalism is back in style when Geraldo Rivera, network TV's original advocacy reporter, is riding high. After getting dumped from ABC's 20/20 in 1985, Rivera started an improbable comeback by opening Al Capone's long-sealed vault on live TV. The cupboard was bare, but ratings were huge, and Rivera followed up with melodramatic specials on such topics as drugs and death row, as well as with a daytime talk show. This week he returns to network TV with a two-hour special on NBC, Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground. The sometimes graphic show dwells...
...another $50 billion to spend, we would argue over how to spend it." From Dukakis on down, the Democratic gospel still includes ritual phrases like "unmet national needs" and "reorienting our priorities." But there is a hollowness to this rhetoric that reflects the barrenness of the federal cupboard. How could any Democrat today have the temerity to propose anything as grandiose as a Great Society when the funds are barely available to maintain an Adequate Society...
...Harvard hockey team, what the eight ft. by eight ft. cupboard on the ice's edge--sometimes devilishly referred to as the "sin bin"--lacks in modern comforts, it makes up for in familiarity...
That's because ever since Captain H.C. Egan '05 and the Harvard men's golf team bested Yale at the Myopia Hunt Club on October 20, 1904 to win its fifth national title in six years, the NCAA title cupboard has been bare for Crimson sports teams...