Word: nerf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retreating into his suite, at least he was comfortable. Senior rooms are not exactly small, the view of the Charles is nice, and he and his roommate had put up a nerf ball hoop in the living room. They shot baskets most evenings, playing Around the World, one on one and PIG (or WAR CRIMINAL when they had a lot of time to kill). It was a little dangerous to the fish tank, and the furniture tended to get a little beat up, but at least it provided a break from the cap pistol wars they sometimes fought...
From Fairfield Prep to the Atlantic Coast Conference to the IAB on Winthrop St., and perhaps on to France, runs the trail of the bouncing basketball of Jim Fitzsimmons. Presently, it has come to rest in occasional games of Nerf in Eliot House and random trips to the former fourthfloor haunt of his 964 career Crimson points...
...born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome. By 1617 he was back in France, marrying the daughter of a prosperous ducal silversmith, Diane Le Nerf. The marriage paid well in contacts and commissions. In 1620 La Tour moved to Lunéville, his wife's town, and begged the Duke of Lorraine for tax exemption-"since nobody of the petitioner's art and profession lives there, or in the region." The duke granted this...