Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glasnost may mean greater openness in the U.S.S.R., but it isn't every day that you can drop in for tea with the Soviet Foreign Minister. But last week Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and correspondent Ann Blackman did, joining Eduard Shevardnadze in his seventh-floor Kremlin office for tea and his first interview with an American magazine. At one point Shevardnadze, graciously offering a cup to Blackman, allowed that by his own count, he has appeared in TIME on at least 40 occasions...
...team played on the fourth floor of the Indoor Athletic Building (now the Malkin Athletic Center), which could not even pass for a poor high school gym. Because there were so few basketball courts at Harvard, Beaulieu wasn't even able to practice every...
...years of nightmares, dreams of not waking up. Feelings about being buried alive. Once, when I was 17, I'd been walking around days without sleep and collapsed on the living-room floor. I realized that something was really wrong with me, that I needed to be hospitalized...
Gorbachev's feisty tone was matched by a barrage of frank criticism from the floor, which was later printed in full in the Soviet press. Yuri Solovyov, the Leningrad regional party boss who had lost his uncontested election race for the new legislature, charged that Kremlin initiatives like the antialcoholism campaign and the program to foster cooperative businesses had been carried out with "inconsistency, haste and insufficient thought." Of perestroika, Solovyov said, the "minuses still significantly exceed the pluses." Moscow Mayor Valeri Saikin, another election loser, questioned whether democracy had not come to mean "everything is permitted...
Then one Sunday we were out on the third floor in the solarium up there. There was some kind of kite festival or kite tournament, and they had every crazy-looking Chinese kite and American kite and airplane kite. That's why I like to sit out. You've got to see the changes...