Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only are my section times usually between five in the afternoon and nine in the morning, but they are always in the worst possible locations. Therefore, at eight o'clock on Friday night I find myself sweating to death in the Boylston boiler room, or on the fifth floor of the Peabody Museum, wedged between two stuffed wolverines in attack posture. "Wanna go out tonight, Ben?" "No thanks, guys. I have to go to the basement of the Semitic Museum and learn about skinks...
McDavitt said that the Man Ray club willfully violated the building code by changing from a family-style restaurant into a nightclub without receiving permission from the board and by renovating a kitchen into a dance floor without permission...
...more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs an elevator to reach his room on the tenth floor...
...decision to lift the emergency decree as a conciliatory move on the part of the government. It was, said Johan Wilson, president of the Federated Chamber of Industries, "a further concrete step to normalize the situation inside South Africa by reducing tensions in the townships and on the factory floor." The Reagan Administration also welcomed the action. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "We have long urged that the state of emergency be lifted as one of the steps the South African government must take to create conditions in which it would be possible to begin negotiations with credible black...
...make a movie that will teach children about coal mining? I can remember only one good book about coal miners, and that was written 30 years ago." Delegates were not surprised to learn that Petrov was a retired miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with my leader," she blurted. "In love!" She then paid Gorbachev, the object of her affection, the ultimate compliment. During the 5 1/2-hour speech that...