Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PERHAPS I'm blaming OCS for my own unwillingness to grow up and take the initiative, including organizing for this summer. It's so far away, isn't it? Tell me it is, because there are more than 80 pages of summer programs and addresses laying on my bedroom floor...
What makes student athletes especially vulnerable to temptation is that many consider themselves underpaid professionals who deserve whatever comes their way. "Once you get out on the floor, it's a job, and you expect to get paid," says former UNLV player Eldridge Hudson. "If a kid is busting his ass on the court, if somebody wants to buy him a car, let him have it." Hudson always hoped to share his good fortune with his family. "Me being a star, I thought my mother deserved a Mercedes." While in school, Hudson said, he had a private apartment and drove...
...supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later, Searles recalls, "my wife took one look at it and was absolutely disgusted. It was imported all right, and it was fur, but it was rabbit fur, probably made from scraps off the floor. If you took a handful of it, you could hear it crinkle...
...have imagined this would happen in my wildest fantasies," marveled artist Dread Scott Tyler. What astonished him was the mobs of outraged veterans and others who gathered daily at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to protest his controversial work featuring an American flag stretched on the floor. Until the exhibition closed last week, politicians, patriots and just plain folks joined in angrily condemning what they believed was desecration of Old Glory...
President Derek C. Bok ate dinner with residents of Stoughton North this week. He had only praise for the Union food, but the dinner was not without trauma. As he bent down to pick up a salad bowl on the floor, he bumped his tray, spilling milk all over." As is so often the case," he said, "In trying to do good in the world, I only succeeded in making things worse...