Word: knobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that ends it? Or is there yet one more terror lurking in the shadows? Listen. What was that noise? Did you hear a footstep? There is nothing we can do. The house shakes, the dishes rattle, and our hands tremble on the door knob. Come in, gentlemen. Another election year - already...
Next day, after an early morning flight to Ningpo's carefully guarded airport, Chiang bounced and jostled by auto over a one-lane dirt road some 40 miles to Fenghwa, his home town, in the knob-topped Sze Ming Mountains. Nestled on a pine and laurel-covered slope is the Gimo's one-story, four-room retreat. A few feet up the slope is a wood and stone arch inscribed with the legend: "Road to Mother Chiang's Tomb." Through it passes a wide-stepped pebble and flagstone walk...
...adequately and uniquely introduces a sense of helplessness. He remembers his parents last fight after which his mother stood outside in the cold for two hours. "I wanted to make them stop," he begins, "I wanted to go outside and get her, but I couldn't reach the door knob." When an adolescent's earliest memory and Dillion's sympathetic demeanor suggest such despair and evoke such pathos, it becomes difficult to accept his outward show of confidence...
...furniture is flying; and Harvard seems a million miles away. Someone downstairs with a Chem 20 hourly the next day asks politely for a little more quiet. A fellow wearing only boxer shorts and a lampshade advises him to stick a carbon chain model in his ear. The volume knob hits "10." The police arrive...
Yeah, and Harvard has a better football team than Notre Dame. Don't mourn too long for this foursome. The police came and asked them to turn down the volume. They did, the police left, they turned the knob back up again, and three months later they graduated (a feat they celebrated with another, even larger, party). They are proof positive of an axiom worth knowing: most of the rules and regulations relating to conduct are enforced about as often as state statues against oral...