Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a theory (perhaps some pro-football-player-turned-color-commentator said it first) that if a team controls the ball on the ground, it usually wins the game...
...boutique on the ground floor of the two-story building housing The Associated Press bureau in San Juan, young looters defied winds hitting 100 m.p.h. at the peak of the storm and carried out armloads of clothing...
...often said that somewhere in Cambridge is the Center of the Universe, but no one is quite sure where, because every Harvard under grad thinks it's underneath the ground he or she is standing on. Sadly, this is true...
...Reagan White House use HUD as a dumping ground for political appointees...
Sometimes the push and pull between tough tactics and constitutional requirements result in a compromise. For years, drug dealers had made Chicago's public housing projects their roosting ground, selling from apartments and raking the hallways with gunfire during turf wars. Last September the Chicago Housing Authority launched "Operation Clean Sweep." Housing authority agents and police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect...