Word: floorful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came out on a mission. We came out to prove we weren’t as bad as we played last Saturday.”Dartmouth proved that point emphatically as it bested the Crimson on both ends of the court. After shooting just 38.3 percent from the floor last time out, the Big Green shot 47.5 percent at home. The Harvard offense—which was firing on all cylinders last Saturday to the tune of 51.8 percent from the floor and 22 assists against just 10 turnovers—made just 18 of 52 attempts at Leede Arena...
Despite its unassuming exterior, the long lines of young men waiting for entry on most weekend nights are a giveaway. And inside it's all action. On a recent Saturday night, hundreds of men milled around the outer rooms drinking and flirting. Around the tennis-court-sized dance floor an Eminem concert featuring the singer performing with what appeared to be members of a circus troupe, including a dwarf, looped on half a dozen video screens, and pulsing lasers and strobe lights flashed over the mass of writhing, sweating bodies. It's been like this every weekend for the last...
Back at Destination, Xiao Wang is still struggling to explain to me how things work. A friend in a leather jacket grabs his shoulder and pulls him towards the dance floor but he hesitates. "If you do something wrong, of course you can get into trouble. But that's not just for gays. That's true for all Chinese. Other than that," he says, turning to follow his friend towards the pulsing music, "we're free to live our lives...
...OCBC's Paris headquarters is filled with stolen art that the team has recovered in recent months. Items from churches - including statues, lecterns, wooden pews, and bronze busts that belong in the Père-Lachaise cemetery - are packed on shelves, stacked against the walls and spread across the floor. Alongside them are hundreds of pieces taken from museums, galleries, libraries, archaeological sites and private homes: paintings by Renoir and Courbet, sculptures by Rodin, lamps by Le Corbusier, 2,300-year-old Italian vases, centuries-old manuscripts, 19th century Cartel clocks. "We've got everything," says Captain Jean-Luc Boyer...
...WHILETREATING impoverished rural amputees in Jaipur, India, orthopedic surgeon P.K. Sethi and local craftsman Ram Chandra devised something revolutionary: an affordable prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine victims in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the $30 Jaipur foot has aided millions of patients in more than 25 developing or war-torn countries. Sethi...