Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, with its vibrating parquet and passionate, maroon-decked faithful, is a big-gym fetishist's fantasy. So when the Harvard women's basketball team marched into Maples for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against topseeded Stanford last season, Janowski was on cloud nine even before her team waltzed out with the biggest victory in its history...
...houses about a dozen squash courts, a weight room in the basement and basketball courts on the top floor. If Hemenway's parquet floors and iron weights are transformed into a gathering ground for ambitious high school students, Law School students may lose access to their only athletic facility...
...probably won't hear Feaster predicting any more victories this year, but you can expect several more impressive performances from her before she departs the hallowed halls of Harvard for the prime-time parquet of the WNBA. And you can expect the Crimson to chalk up many more wins with Feaster at its helm, even if she doesn't announce each...
...nowhere, Scott came in to deflect the shot. Jumping about 10 feet out of bounds, he flung the ball over his head back onto the court. As both teams were scrambling for the rock, Scott ran back onto the parquet, dove onto the floor, and ended up with the basketball. He was greeted with a standing ovation from everyone in the building...
...latest comings and goings with an objective eye, colored only by a vague sense of jealousy. First-years don't know how good they have it during Orientation Week, nor will they know it until afterward. As in that first junior-high dance, they tentatively step onto the parquet floor, nervously approach their classmates and ask them what activities they did in high school (well, the metaphor breaks down after a while). Only once the Orientation Week dance is over do they realize how much fun they...