Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members re-entered University Hall and sat-in at the reception room at the deans' offices. Administrators vacated their offices throughout the afternoon, and secretaries were sent home...
...clarify. In each the normal rectangular order of human environments, the square corners on which houses are built, is disrupted in favor of a world filled with senseless detail. The aviator has landed complaining that the woman he loves isn't present. Renoir cuts to a radio in her room, following the announcer's voice. The room is bright and elegant, unlike the night-time of the airfield-and full of ornament. Her dressing table overflows with gleaming toilette articles. A mirror atop it reflects her maidservant twice, filling much of the frame with her image. Very little...
...Zavelle said that the verbal interrogation is usually "terrifying" for the shoplifter. After repeated questioning, students often admit that they have stolen other items from the Coop. With the student's permission or with a search warrant, a Coop official sometimes goes on to search an offending student's room...
...student signed the statement of intent to steal and later denied that he had intended to shoplift. The student said he had forgotten to pay for the goods in question, and confessed because he had been emotionally upset and afraid that he would not be allowed to leave the room until he had signed the form...
...carried the placard for two hours; now it was time to give it up. I stepped forward, and slowly, with the greatest deliberation, I placed Tinsley on top of all the others. He didn't take up much room, and I thought about what a great number of such cards would be needed to fill all ten coffins. But every two seconds, another, joined the group...