Word: planked
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...nasty smelly plank forced most of the residents of Northwestern University's Kappa Sigma fraternity into the cold on April Fool's day when unidentified pranksters doused their residence with buteric acid...
...bulldozer rakes up a wood plank or a cluster of twisted steel supports, someone will claim it and try to build a hut around it. There are women of all ages. There are children everywhere, who chase one another through the ruins and occasionally, oblivious to the danger, scramble into the shovels of the moving UNRWA tractors. One sees few men. Some are dead; others have been detained by the Israelis, who still make sorties into the camp in search of Palestine Liberation Organization suspects. One of those imprisoned was Hodrasadi's son Ibrahim, 18, who had recently undergone...
...Urban Development Action Grant helped induce Wang Laboratories, a $900 million computer firm, to move its headquarters to Lowell. By 1982, Wang and other new high-tech firms helped bring 6,000 new jobs to Lowell. Today, companies that assemble computer-age products on the wide-plank floors of restored 19th century mills employ 20% of Lowell's labor force...
...Nobody's excited with the contract we ended up with," said 49ers Player Rep Keith Fahnhorst, "but everybody's excited to get back to work." Though many players never stopped working out, Chicago Bears Safety Doug Plank noted, "it's one thing to be in running shape, and another to be in collision shape...
...really made clear when we were admitted that we would never have housing," says transfer student Paul D. Palmer '84. He and several other recent transfers, who say they feel similarly "deluded," decided to run for Dudley House Undergraduate Council representative on a platform that contained one major plank: Transfer students should be guaranteed housing. They received wide support and four were eventually elected. Dudley House has only five representatives...