Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innovation. The company built a $1 million sports complex at its headquarters that is used by two-thirds of the staff members. They can stretch their muscles on Nautilus body-building equipment, take lessons in aerobic dancing and Kung Fu and then relax in a Jacuzzi or a tanning parlor...
...with last year's Beanpot. After limiting potent Northeastern to two goals in the opening round. Lau blanked Boston College, 2-0, in the finals to earn the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. He became an instant celebrity on the Harvard campus--recognized even at a local pizza parlor as "the guy who won the Beanpot...
...Dredging up every sort of reporting on the Senator, showing the media's role change from Joseph McCarthy's mouthpiece to that of a dramatic image-maker which cast McCarthy as a villainous "bully" with "heavy dark brows" or as a heroic cow-boy who fought "smear gangs" and "parlor pinks," the book vividly illustrates McCarthy's ride on the tracks of America's media, lying and venomously spewing forth accusations...
...course, since the bisons of Lascaux. But Landseer was the only painter who ever became a court favorite and a national culture hero by painting dogs. He painted other creatures too-ptarmigans and parrots, monkeys, cats, horses, cattle and, especially, deer; there was a time when no cottage parlor or country hall lacked its framed print of Landseer's defiant twelve-point stag, The Monarch of the Glen...
...weekend when they descended upon senior MARY HERLIHY's house in Worcester after the Eastern Championships, and indulged in sandwiches, salad, chips, and cider--the coach had a little "liquid refreshment" he demurely noted. On the way back, the team--still not completely sated--stopped at an ice cream parlor for a snack. Everyone ordered large servings, but junior DARLENE BECKFORD's creation of peppermint ice cream with hot fudge and marshmallow topping won special honors...