Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club crashing down on the girl's head. The force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from the floor; the girl screamed and blood cascaded onto Dean Glimp's blue carpet" (The Harvard Strike, L. Eichel...
...first image is a young boy on a Sunday morning. Sprawled on the living room floor, the boy pores over pages of newsprint. Numbers. Statistics. All the arcane lore contained in the sports section. It is a group ritual. The boy looks up occasionally to share a dramatically improved ERA with his father. The father, lolling on the couch with the Business section, responds with animation. "That reminds me of the 1955 Dodgers. What a season...
...sports pages--particularly The Globe's--that unite men across generational boundaries. The little boy sprawled on the floor Sunday morning and the business executive share a common passion--the arcania of baseball, the trivia of football, the violence of hockey...
...powerful House committee has planned for several months, will focus on government spending patterns, taxes and social insurance programs. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Daniel Rostenkowski (D-III.), is one of the House's most powerful committees, controlling all requests for fiscal expenditures before they reach the floor of Congress...
...during a critical Harvard-Dartmouth basketball game played in leaky Briggs Cage, one manager not only had to keep score of the game but had to fight the forces of nature. Otherwise, one slip could determine the outcome. "There were lines of water across the floor and I had to find people to help me clean up water between plays," men's basketball manager Monica Phillips '90 recalls...