Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago a broken hot water faucet flooded the second floor bathroom. Students temporarily stopped the flooding by weighting down the faucet, said Douglas W. Marx...
Meanwhile, only three blocks away at the 30-story modernistic headquarters of the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, another cops-and-robbers drama was played out. Federal agents quietly entered the 29th-floor office of Robert Freeman, 44, head of the company's arbitrage department. Freeman was arrested and escorted from the building. Driven across town to Manhattan's federal court building, the handcuffed executive joined another distinguished Wall Streeter who had been arrested the night before. Timothy Tabor, 33, a former Kidder, Peabody investment banker and subsequent Merrill Lynch executive, had been picked up at his Upper East Side apartment...
...Masai came from the same place in the creation, and they have always been together." The visitor thought of the cattle-raiding warriors, and asked the laibon if it is all right to kill a man. The laibon thought, drank, blew his nose onto the dirt floor and replied, "It is not so bad to kill a man. If you do it and are successful, it is not so bad, because God allowed the man to die. God agreed, and so it happened...
...olive trees. Moses and Olentwala joke in Ol' Maa. The visitor stretches out and makes notes: "Moses has killed six lions, more than 60 buffalo. A buffalo wounded his brother last year, and he wants to kill lots of buffalo. He points to a buff. skull on the forest floor and says he killed that one there several months ago. Cows grazing all around me now. M. shows me a 'buffalo's house' -- a hollowed out space among the olive trees where the buffalo shelter. Moses: 'We like the animals. I am very sad if we don't see them...
...Manila. But what did the former Philippine First Lady do with 15 mink coats? These were among the items listed in the government's latest inventory of possessions left behind in Malacanang Palace by the fleeing Marcoses last February. Also listed were 508 floor- length gowns, 888 handbags and 71 pairs of sunglasses. The final tally on Imelda's shoes was 1,060 pairs, less than the 3,000 originally reported. Still, the legend of the shoes lives on. Included was one pair, fitted with batteries, that sparkles in the dark...