Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Germans occupied the palace during World War II, and afterward visitors discovered white mushrooms growing on the cold, damp walls and rain dripping from the frescoed ceilings onto the parquet floors. The Rockefeller family again spearheaded a fund-raising drive. Today more than 60 rooms are open to the public, and fully half of the palace has been restored. Total price tag since 1950: about $75 million. Versailles now ranks as France's third biggest tourist attraction; only the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Eiffel Tower are more popular...
...noise inside "the world's most modern cigarette factory" is so deafening that workers are required to wear earplugs. Employees must also stand while they work. Thoughtfully, Philip Morris has installed a parquet wood floor, "easy on they eyes and easy on the feet," as the brochure puts it. And to aid the workers further, the management installed "floor to ceiling, glare-resistant" windows that look out on gardens, foliage, lawns, reflecting pools and a fountain...
This season, stung by charges of illegal recruiting, the Warriors of Cambridge Rindge and Latin were the sport's bad boys, not only on the parquet floors, but in district court...
Frederick kept quantities of freshly-cut flowers in his bright and airy flat, which he decorated with nineteenth century mahogany and oriental rugs over parquet. A heavily rouged black man in a gold harem outfit, who had done his hair in one long, thin braid down his back, served tea to this lively, well-mannered bunch. "That's Oscar," whispered Alexis. "He helps Frederick out around the house...
...residence in a 62-ft. yacht that docked in several posh Florida marinas. As the flag vessel of the FBI'S secret fleet, the cruiser, seized by customs officials from marijuana smugglers, was first named the Left Hand and later the Corsair. "It gleamed with the predictable varnished parquet decks, teak paneling-and a wide variety of eavesdropping and recording devices. The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew out one of its engines-and thereafter pretended to be in great fear of punishment from the all-powerful sheik...