Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be doing a lot of [heating, ventilation and air conditioning] work in the Towers," said Leverett superintendent Matt Stec. In addition, the House will receive new lighting in all suites, a new paint job in many parts of the House and brighter lighting in the hallways--which Leverett House Master Howard Georgi '68 called "rather dreary...
...Crimson pride smarts as vandals from Boston University paint John Harvard with B.U. colors and burn their school's initials in 15-foot letters on Soldiers' Field...
...that one--is president of the Parent Teachers Association in a Westchester, Calif., middle school and works hard to catch cues of brewing trouble. Last week, she says, she made a special effort to tune in to her 14-year-old, Adam, as he told her about a recent paint-ball game. "I didn't give a rat's a__," she admits, "but I listened...
Chicago's Best Practices High, which has been open just three years, has seen only two fights, in part because students report bad behavior to teachers. Last year when freshmen decorated lockers with graffiti, older students tattled before the paint could dry. When one student showed up with unkempt hair and satanic messages on his shirt, students reported him as well. Teachers saw his costume as a symptom of other problems, which they got him to discuss...
...reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING...