Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other six do an out-of-step side-to-side shuffle. In between refrains, the various salesmen sing rap-style verses in which they boast about their prowess on the showroom floor...
...Monday April 14, a bright, sunny day around noon, I looked out my office window from the eighth floor of Holyoke Center. To my horror, I saw a man beating a woman, down on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop Streets. As I watched him smack her repeatedly on the side of the head, and forcibly prevent her from running away, I dialed 911 for help. Between the time that I first saw this spectacle and finished telling the police where and what it was, I must have watched at least 30 people walk down Dunster Street--without stopping. There...
...University has modified two suites in the Yard, both on the ground floor of Canaday B for handicapped use. But with no other accessible dorm in the Yard, handicapped students say their social life is limited. "I can't go to visit any of my friends," said Downer, who lives in Canaday B. "I can't even see anyone upstairs in my own entry...
...proposal drafted by Wallace and Crooks is to make Hurlbut Hall totally accessible. Such a plan would give a handicapped student access to many rooms, not just his room on his floor. Wallace has received estimates that the project would cost about...
...fact that the remains of all seven crew members had been recovered from Challenger's heavily damaged crew compartment on the ocean floor was a tribute to the largest underwater search operation in history. Costing some $20 million, the search also retrieved enough of the shuttle's parts to substantiate the findings of NASA investigators and a presidential commission looking into the disaster. The probers have concluded that a joint between two segments of the shuttle's right booster failed, letting superhot gases escape and rapidly ignite liquid fuel from the external tank, causing an explosion 73 seconds into...