Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store displays its variegated edibles on shelves made of inter-connecting red and white plastic pipes that extend from floor to ceiling. Resting on the pipes are 440 bins of candy, dried fruit and nuts, popcorn, granola, cookies and 12 flavors of gelato...
...sophomore guard (who finished with a career-high 14 points) made a nifty steal and drove downcourt. Near the foul line, Jasper forward Antoine Owens made like a cornerback beaten on a fly pattern and tried to make a touchdown-saving tackle. Gielen was dragged to the floor, but not until he threw in the lay-up. A two-shot intentional foul was correctly called, and Gielen canned the freebies to cap an eight-point Harvard run which turned a 77-73 ballgame into an 85-73 Crimson cinch...
...plan misfired (as did a second-half half-hearted attempt to revive the gift), but Harvard didn't, as the Crimson nailed its first seven shots from the floor...
...Harvard played a superior, if hectic, ballgame overall and quickly retook the lead for good. The Crimson shot 59 percent from the floor in the second half (54 percent for the game), and committed only 13 turnovers. But Harvard's intensity, if statistically measurable, would have been unusually...
...REMEMBER exactly when we did it the first time, but I do know how we did it. A few friends and I went to a little store on the ground floor of the run-down Commodore Hotel, stood on the street corner and stopped shady looking people as they walked by. "Excuse me," the bravest of us asked politely, "would you mind going in and buying us some beer...