Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louisville, North Carolina State and Georgia went into the Pit on a Saturday afternoon for the semifinals of the 48-team tournament, No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Louisville presumably to play for a national championship, N.C. State and Georgia apparently to try on each other's glass slipper. If the ball cannot be kicked through a goal post, the game is not for Georgia. N.C. State, while a basketball school sure enough, lost ten games this year, five times as many as Houston, more than any eventual champion in history. State's 67-60 success against Georgia...
...phased out its venerable Beetle profile of the 1950s and 1960s for the engineering improvements and angular lines of the bestselling Rabbit in the 1970s, the company is now at work on the aerodynamically sleek silhouette of a new subcompact four-seater design that looks more like a Gucci slipper than...
...hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like the dying Janet Case) who are in need, practical and encouraging to younger writers like Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen...