Word: grates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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when cold, they try to find a warm air grate...
...Never mind, though--he loses it.) The silly boy's hard drive crashes, and he does not have a backup on floppy. Rushing through the Yard to Kinko's to xerox his one printed version of the essay, he trips in the snow, and his thesis falls through a grate into the bowels of Widener Library...
Granted, he had ten chapters--it's important. But I think you gotta get past that--really that's not why this story began. This story began when he dropped his thesis in the grate. And what made him do that? It was his cockiness. He is a bit compulsive, as one of them says. Moira's telling him wait until morning. What, do you think someone's gonna come in and steal it? I mean, your arrogance about the importance of these pages that it can't wait until morning. His arrogance when he turns around...
...there's more. All right, I admit it: I'm from Baltimore. I can't write a column without mentioning the grate strides the Orioles made in the off-season, so here goes...
Meanwhile, panhandlers who prefer real money can simply increase begging in neighborhoods without vouchers. Steward, however, is standing pat. He has no intention of leaving his coveted spot atop a steam grate and appreciates the $5 worth of vouchers he has received so far. "But to tell you the truth," he adds sheepishly, "I'd rather have the cash...