Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, sometimes post-modernist can be different from anything that the students have experienced previously. Nelson says of one teacher, "She's amazing. I come back with bruises." And Keller says that in one of her classes, "The teacher has you slam your body against the floor and do other bizarre things...
...Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate each of the 24 tables at the reception and a couple of bazooka-like armaments that shot periodic showers of confetti and red feathers onto the dance floor. Vincent, a Wall Street broker, explains, "We wanted to do it our way. We did not want to hear from our parents that we should do this or should not do that...
...Institute offers courses in Ukrainian literature, language and history, in addition to guest lectures, films and a unique residential plan, which houses nearly all the HURI students together on the third floor of Mather House...
...debate over special favors got caught up in a larger squabble that kept the Senate from passing the tax bill last week. When floor action began, Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood, the bill's manager, tried to enforce a no-amendments stand in order to preserve the delicate balance of the measure, which lowers and simplifies tax rates in return for wholesale elimination of exemptions and deductions. But fellow Senators, their tempers frayed by two late-night sessions, offered 62 amendments, mostly general but minor. A few, however, were phrased in the confusing Unocal style to offer favors to specific...
...Senate floor, the transition rules faced a rare attack, mounted by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...