Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with red banners-posters of the Politburo stared out at the public everywhere' 3 end the celebration, a Soviet armed-forces parade this week will bristle through Red Square, past the mausoleum where Lennon - the now deified founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - rests in his glass case...
...that pride is not shared by all the students. Vandalism is a problem; a favorite prank is to smash the school's two-story glass windows, which cost $700 each. Last year's damage bill came to almost $30,000 ?close to what the school spent on textbooks. The great majority of students could not care less about their school. "The school spirit...
...climbed out of sight last winter. When President Carter in April proposed homeowner tax credits for installing insulation, Coleman figured he could at least afford to make his four-bedroom house more energy efficient. But when he went to the lumber store to buy 750 sq. ft. of fiber-glass insulation for his attic, he could not get one square inch. The store had been sold out for weeks, and no one had any idea when new shipments would arrive. Gripes Coleman: "It's ridiculous. I've been waiting for nearly three months, and now winter is almost...
Since midsummer, a nationwide shortage of insulation, fiber glass and rock wool, has turned the fuel conservation plans of tens of thousands of other Americans into near-impossible dreams. Fiber glass today no longer comes only in the familiar batts (rolls) tacked up between wall and ceiling joists; it has also largely replaced rock wool as the preferred fluffy insulation material blown into wall spaces...
...driven by Christopher Finn '80, who is helping ease the serious shortage of volunteers willing to transport kids to Walpole for the program. The kids hop out in the prison parking lot and run into the anteroom where other youths--both black and white--stand peering into the glass windows of the prison's central command, waiting for the uncooperative guards to find the list that will let them in tonight...