Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saloon in Juneau, the sawdust on the floor gets changed biweekly come fog, downpour or the occasional shard of sunlight. Behind the bar, there's a bumper sticker that was temporarily stapled up last spring for laughs. It reads, GOD, PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER BOOM. WE PROMISE NOT TO P THIS ONE AWAY...
...stiff hike up the hill from the Red Dog, nobody in the state capitol building sees anything to chuckle about. When Steve Cowper, the new Governor of the largest state in the union, looks out his third-floor window, his horizon does not stretch far enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion...
...November of 1986, protesters screaming and writhing on the floor forced the relocation of a speech at the Law School by Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode. Six Harvard policemen escorted Goode out of the auditorium, and officials announced the new location for the speech. Officials excluded the protestors from the new auditorium, and Goode spoke uninterrupted...
...swings open, I step inside and press 27 quickly. Just as I think my escape is assured, the woman squeezes her body between the closing doors, forcing them to swing open in deference to her protruding belly. I then watch in horror as she attempts to press the 20th floor button. She hits 17, then 19, 22, 24, 26, 18, and then 12. I resolve that people whose fingers cannot function according to their will should ask for assistance in elevators, otherwise they deserve...
Getting off the elevator on the sixth floor, I followed the scent of incense around the corner and discovered that I was at the right apartment. Pausing a bit to gather myself--after all, it was not every day that I visited a psychic fair--I tiptoed nervously down the hall and entered a sunlit living room where several very normal-looking people were standing around dressed in very normal-looking clothing...