Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between bouts at the gaming tables, Bennett would be treated to a free ringside seat at the championship fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Donny Lalonde. After Leonard won by a knockout, Bennett would receive the champ's satin dressing gown as a souvenir. He would golf with top hotel executives and tip waitresses with $100 gambling chips. His lavish suite would not cost him a dime...
...this year by City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge stands to lose at least $12.52 million should the CLT petition pass. A more likely scenario calls for cuts on the order of $25 million. Such a loss would devastate the most basic services that everyone in Cambridge--town and gown alike--now depends upon...
...months and were watching an adult film at their New York City apartment, when Tara kiddingly suggested, "Why don't we make our own?" Two months later, after consultation with a therapist, the pair re-created their wedding night on camera. Joe wore his tuxedo, Tara her bridal gown -- at least initially...
...least one club. Princeton mandates that one hundred percent of Bicker's participants find a home, or at least a dinner table. And so, at the very end of Bicker, while the chosen few are welcomed through the distinguished doors of Ivy, or Cottage, or Cap and Gown, and while those less fortunate console themselves with Court, or Cannon, or Quadrangle, the scattered leftovers must gather on Ivy's back porch. There, they are claimed by reluctant club presidents who previously rejected them. These unlucky, unwanted few are the "Hundred Percenters...
...think they're a total anachronism. They go back to 18th century England, when the rich all dressed in fancy black tie and gown for dinner every night while the poor were starving in the street. That's one thing Gorbachev and I agree on. He won't wear a black tie either. I don't go to functions where they wear dungarees and sweat shirts either. I just...