Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary never knew what would trigger her husband's rages. One evening he spotted rotting lettuce in the refrigerator. Furious, the Charlotte, N.C., bank executive threw her to the floor and jammed her head into the vegetable bin. Tami first found out about the dark side of her husband, a young California minister, when she placed a cassette into the tape player backward. Suddenly livid, he grabbed her by the hair and threw her against the wall. Recalls Sue Ellen, whose college-professor lover left her with broken bones in her face, hand and foot: "I was like a wounded...
...Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan or an easing of the restrictions on Jewish emigration. Many Senators might find it hard to vote against such politically popular measures. But because these provisions have little real relevance to the missile accord, they could probably be shot down before reaching the Senate floor for a vote...
...second floor, Brian Tyrol, 34, a youthful former cabinetmaker in horn-rimmed glasses, is digging at an oak floor in an attempt to dislodge the hardware of a pair of carved swinging doors. "I can't remember if the spring- controlled hinge would have been on the top or the bottom in 1907," he says, scratching his head. But he does know that the doors, decorated with carved vines, leaves and grapes, will bring a buck in the showroom. "In New York City, art deco was last year," he says. "Now the decorators all want Louis XV Lifestyles...
...this mock recital, everything is played for real. Seated on folding chairs on the gym floor, the spectators are treated as if they had been classmates in Oil City, and each night a different woman in the audience is -- surprise! -- showered with affection as "Miss Reeves." While it is easy to make fun of ineptitude, it's quite another thing to make it sweet and touching. When Debbie and Mary can get a seen-it-all, done-it-all Greenwich Village audience on its feet, unabashedly doing the hokey-pokey and, later, singing a tender, hushed chorus of Joseph...
Harvard maintains several unoccupied single rooms which can accommodate freshmen unhappy with their roommates. While Worth would not say exactly how many rooms are so reserved, she says there are "very few spots available," and that they are mostly first-floor rooms needed in case of medical emergencies...