Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that Strauss argued he could not even find storage room for the 90-day supply of matériel that NATO has asked the West German forces to maintain...
...have the time or skill to handle their own dogs. Clara Alford, a half-Cherokee professional handler from Catoosa, Okla., put Gossie on the strict regimen of a Peke show dog, e.g., no romping with other dogs or children (he might damage an eye), no baths (his hair might mat). She stoked him on chopped steak laced with wheat germ, brushed his flowing reddish hair from two to nine hours a day. For eleven months a year, Gossie spent much of his time in a traveling case in the back of Clara's Dodge station wagon as she barnstormed...
After wartime service in the Navy, Newell was hired to coach the University of San Francisco basketball team. He led the Dons to a National Invitation Tournament championship in 1949, quit in 1950 to go to Michigan State. In four years, Newell built the Spartans, long a door mat in Midwestern basketball, into a steady contender, was finally lured back to California...
...spectral, hallucinatory quality of a Poe short story, Author Bjarnhof tells of a boy who made contact with the well-guarded girls' wing of the institute. Like ghosts, he and his Juliet would glide along the sleep-drugged passageways to make their bed of love on a sweaty mat in the institute gym - until the night the light was on, with an attendant watching...