Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decency to hang a comforting, prestigious diploma on the wall of his office, took me to the operating room, probably disinfected with Lysol, and sewed the detached attachments back on to my torso--probably with an old knitting needle and a piece of string he found on the floor...
After the analysts wade through the research and determine which securites to add to the investment portfolio, the Wall Street-HMC connection moves to the trading floor. Traders buy and sell securities via direct lines to brokerage houses, making between 50 and 75 calls each day and fielding more than 100 calls...
...neglects the players. Flesh fades before wordplay as he, elegant in his tweed coat and paisley scarf, embraces her, a slob in worn corduroys and ratty sweater, on the way to the frowsy couch in Billy's study. Readers can scarcely hear Billy's battered loafers thud to the floor for the detonations of insights and definitions...
...SIXTEEN DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...
...proposed zoning change would allow more first-floor commercial use of buildings in Harvard Square and would limit the height of all new structures to 60 feet...