Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...implicitly permit the press to waive normal strictures of taste and delicacy in the pursuit of rumor. But until recently, journalists tended to judge members of Congress by a more humane standard. It was not too long ago that a prominent legislator could be carried off the Senate floor in a drunken stupor without a word of his public intoxication appearing in the press. Such journalistic self-censorship certainly did little to promote sobriety among public officials, but it did help create an almost unimaginable era of political comity in Congress...
During the pulse-raising half-hour aerobic section of the class, there is only time for a quick "How's everything going with your (new baby, surgery, divorce, job, novel, college student)?" When the women settle to the floor to stretch tired muscles and rest racing hearts, however, the informal club comes to order...
Family matters and suburban survival techniques get regular attention. They are the cement that holds the classes together. Says Grossman: "There's a sense of shared community here about the fact that there's not enough time, the kids won't do the dishes, and father paces the floor when daughter is out on the first date. You need to hear that everybody else is going through...
Actually, at that point I was the proud possessor of not one but two complete sets of parents. But Mom had dropped me off in front of Holworthy at 8 a.m. and headed straight back to western New York. Sayonara sweetheart, have fun carrying those boxes to the third floor...
Glenn was, and is, a very neat person, so Idon't know how he dealt with living in our room.Holworthy 9 is on the first floor, which meantthat everyone in the entryway would stop by for awhile on their way upstairs. Many would bringfood, some of which inevitably ended up on ourrug. The food that didn't hit the rug insteadwould hit the piles of pizza boxes and newspapersthat lasted for weeks on our floor...