Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess I should have figured it out during the ice cream bash freshperson week, when I began to notice that all in the room were the editor-in-chief of their high school's newspaper, the principal managing editor of the yearbook, the president of their class, the first counsel to their Model U.N., and the chief executive officer of their Stock Market Club...
...Conference with a spirited defense of the President's first 100 days. Cabinet Secretaries painted a dismaying picture of U.S. drug, environmental and educational problems. One morning was spent in the CIA's domed and soundproofed "bubble" with officials, including Director William Webster. In a majestic Supreme Court conference room, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy paced cheerfully as he quoted from Shakespeare and the Constitution. Assuring his visitors that it was all right to stay longer, Kennedy quipped, "Hey, I'm going to be here for the rest of my life...
...forces his nephew to stand at attention and circles the boy while spitting on him. During a parent-teacher conference in Detroit, a woman grabs her twelve-year- old son, hits him in the face until he bleeds, then punches him in the ribs and walks out of the room. What did these children do to earn such treatment? They brought home report cards with poor grades...
...first ads for TV sets showed elegantly dressed models watching in posh surroundings, and often contained practical advice. ("Should the room in which you are viewing television be darkened to resemble a movie theater? Answer: Definitely not!") But soon the marketers of TV had a brainstorm: promoting the new device as a way of bringing the family together again. "There is great happiness," exulted an ad for DuMont sets, "in the home where the family is held together by this new common bond -- television." Another promotional piece listed the things that "took the family away from home" -- including baseball, vaudeville...
...characteristic funnel shape of a killer tornado. On another, molecules the size of baseballs jostle frantically for position, each seeking out a comfortable docking site on another's surface. On a third screen, a small child in bright white diapers rises on stubby legs and toddles across a room...