Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muggy Tuesday evening, and in the crowded gymnasium of a suburban Connecticut high school 60 miles from Manhattan, Reaganomics has come home to roost. Welcome to Weston's annual town meeting, a 200-year-old form of democratic self-rule that once was as common in New England as the American elm, and now is becoming increasingly rare...
COST members are riled most by what they regard as educational frills and extras in the budget, which the board of education insists has already been "cut to the bone." Among the budget items that rankle most: $23,000 for art-instruction supplies, $13,000 for a gymnasium divider net, $3,600 for a color TV and video taping system...
...seems good-naturedly inclined to dismiss this manifest lunacy as an extreme example of the illogical, though often charming, behavior of the weaker sex. Soon, however, he is spotted by a woman, and she incites her cronies to violent retaliation against male sexual oppression, embodied in Snaporaz. Through a gymnasium bursting with women lifting weights and practicing testicle kicks he rushes, down into the fiery furnace below...
Halfway up the narrow road toward the campus we finally figured out where we were, and a little of our excitement returned. This was, after all, practically a homecoming for us; we had relived the days in the red-brick dormitories and grey-concrete gymnasium, had dissected relationships between class album pictures, and had witnessed over and over again the horror of missing last-second free throws again archrival Middlesex...
Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...