Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frisbie, an all-Ivy League cornerback on the football team last fall, played center-drawer for the second midfield this spring. He is one of the most aggressive members of the team, and was a consistent scorer on hard shots from the outside...
...sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three study rooms there, but not a single book on their many shelves...
PRODUCT DESIGN: Companies could design products with an eye to easier repair. Motorola now produces color TV sets in which the basic parts are tucked into a pullout drawer; a serviceman can slide out the drawer and replace the faulty parts without hauling the whole set into his shop. In addition, manufacturers could spend more on improved quality and less on annual model changes. "Planned obsolescence," says Henry Ford II. "is out the window...
...high with them. I'd just say all right. I got started through drinking and then smoking reefers. I started heroin when I was 14. I wasn't really strung out [badly addicted]. I wouldn't get sick and upset. I used to take money from my father's drawer and ask for money on the street, some change sometimes. I used to get heroin from anywhere. I'd get it in my building, the next building, on the street corners. I got arrested with my friends. We were shooting up in the hallway, and a cop came along...
...Goines had had enough, as he told an Indianapolis court last week. He had to give refunds to two customers who lost their money to the device, then it took Goines' own 15?. "I shook that machine," Goines testified. "Then I walked over to the desk drawer, got my .22-cal. revolver, and I went over and shot the machine dead! After I fired the shot, I looked at that machine and I said, That's the last time you're going to cheat anybody.' " The municipal judge was not amused; he fined Goines...