Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy Space Table and the Dunster Pinball Table, wane in popularity and sometimes never recover. The Space Table was comprised of 20 Quincy House members who enjoyed partaking in marijuana before a meal once a week in one of the common rooms. After a five year life span as the Space Table, the club was disbanded when the new master David A. Aloian expressed disapproval of the radical behavior. Earlier this year, the group tried to re-form under a new name, The Split Infinitives, based on the popular Star Trek Motto, "To boldly go..." However, this strategy too failed...
While athletic department officials--as well as most of the facilities' users--count those two structures as well-schemed successes, neither project was without problems. Contractors worked throughout last summer to install enough seating to span the length of the 100-yard field, then scrambled to erect seats in the enclosed end of the stadium in time for The Game. "Before the Yale game, there was round-the-clock pressure to get the seats in," Athletic Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 says. Construction workers did not complete the seating until the Tuesday before the Yale game...
...clarify the difference, Foot and Healey produced a tortured compromise statement marked with internal contradictions. No sooner had it been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life span of ten to twelve years as effective deterrents . . . and we should not give them up unilaterally." That sent a jolt through the party, and at week's end the continuing differences were so obvious that Foot was reluctant to answer questions on the issue...
...attention span of an eight-year-old. Fifteen minutes of work on his material and he's getting antsy. The Palm Springs spread is, like Disneyland, made to be toured, and Hope is soon whisking the visitor over his domain, stopping one minute to show off a photo of George Patton urinating into the Rhine, and in the next parading the wonders of his clothes closet, a room about the size of a C.E.O.'s office. There are a wall of shoes and long racks of blazers, slacks and other 19th-hole formal wear. "I wear them...
...highlight of the annual festival was an attempt by more than 600 students to set the record for the world's largest game of I wister, an event in which players must position randoml, chosen hands and feet on colored dots that span a cloth game board...