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Word: roomful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condition." "My membrum," he writes, "betrousered, is truly rampant." Stingo gets drunk on two beers, runs from any sort of danger or disturbance, ejaculates prematurely--he is, in short, what the Jews he loves to stereotype would call a nebbish, the kind of person who, when he enters a room, gives the impression that seven people just left...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: See No Evil | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...alarming rate. Half the members left by midyear, Kyriazis said, further charging that many of them "used SHS as a stepping stone." Kyriazis also claims SHS floundered because the University wuld not grant them office space. Archie C. Epps, III, dean of students, in January assigned SHS a room in the Memorial Hall basement. Kyriazis marched into Rm 186 only to find it occupied by the Kuumba Singers. Epps said he thought Kuumba had moved a year ago. SHS is still on a list with 12 other new organizations looking for office space. Kyriazis argues that SHS should get special...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...accident "could have happened in my living room, Frank D. Bruno '80, a member of the Pi-Eta club said yesterday. Bruno, who visited the hospital Wednesday, said Callahan is "in a good frame of mind...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Pi-Eta Club Initiate Seriously Injured Following Fraternity's Initiation Rites | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...would be nice to get rebates on room and board from the athletic department," Horn said. "Tufts and MIT do. They also get a travel allowance." Sailing team members, as participants in a Level II sport, must pay for all their expenses and must drive their own cars to the regattas held across New England and the country...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: They're Makin' Waves in the Charles | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

Most of Fabian's sex occurs inside his VanHome, a monstrous mobile house of a half-dozen rooms, among them a tack room, skylit bedroom, and stable for his horses. The VanHome and the strange sex that goes on inside it leap out as symbols of the way of life Kosinski's characters have always sought. The impregnable quality of the VanHome, its mobility and completeness, match the character of its driver. Like the sex in his bedroom, Fabian burns wildly passionate on the inside. But like the cool metal walls of the VanHome, his shell is unforgiving...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Horse Play | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

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