Word: rim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unquestionably, the room focuses on the pool table, but the overall lounge motif enhances the atmosphere. A pool hall lamp hangs down over the table, and strings of beer lights criss-cross the ceiling. Worn, olive-colored, leather couches rim the room, making the wait for table time pass in leisurely comfort. The chairs, acquired locally in Jamaica Plain, lend panache to the establishment. The seventies film posters, traffic signs and other bric-a-brac coordinate superbly with the lounge theme...
Basil's shot was off target, and bounded highoff the rim to the right. Feaster reentered thecourt, gained position on the right block, hauledin the offensive rebound and somehow managed tolay the ball in with three defenders surroundingher...
Hill then raced downcourt with the clock winding down and hoisted a wild shot from the left corner. It clanged off the front of the rim, but Fisher corralled the rebound and came up short...
...converted the front end--thanks in part to a friendly rim--but missed the second shot. Feather grabbed the rebound, however, and converted two shots from the charity stripe to put Harvard up by five points...
...world's second richest nation is threatened by the financial crisis that has hammered and humiliated the wildfire economies of Asia. As South Korea slid close toward insolvency last week, the Japanese were looking toward their leaders, and foreign investors were looking to Japan for signals that the Pacific Rim's chief Asian power could buffer the quakes rattling the region's interlocking systems...