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Word: hallways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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DAVE, THE MOST grotesquely warped of our trio, made a grab for the steel ball and disappeared down the hallway, yelling something about Bowling for Doorknobs. Austin and I exchanged glances of abject terror. We knew about Dave's fetish for doors. One door in particular. "Daaaaaaaaave...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...late. Reverberations of steel on linoleum echoed off Dave's mad cackle, as the spheroid struggled down the hallway, fighting for maximum velocity. Bouncing like a racquetball from hell it finally impacted, expressing its tensile strength in an ugly, permanent scar on our tutor's door...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

Whenever I leaned back before a large lunch, with remote control to the VCR in hand and a view of the grassy corral out the window, I remembered to look in the hallway. Sure enough the Mexican cleaning woman was lurking in the shadows, perched on a set of drawers and gobbling down her bag lunch. She would never accept my invitation to join me at the table, she only smiled...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: California Contradiction | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...Group to Limit Smoking Areas" incorrectly attributed a statement to Joyce Shui '87, the group's president. In relating a story about anonymous students who took action against smokers, Shui did not say that a senior tutor removed a 'no smoking' sign posted by a student in a house hallway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTION | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

...singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Blending Voices | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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