Word: stall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They had developed a heavy dependency on speed from revved-up "vitamin shots" they had started to take in the '60s. Don's problem was particularly severe, and the brothers, starting to stall commercially, were beginning to put more distance between themselves as well. Personally, their lives seemed like a series of wrong turns. Phil put two marriages behind him, Don three. Professionally, they recorded on their own after the split, but there was no spirit in any of that music. "Brothers sing differently," Don says. "We sing as one person. That's what...
Sometime last night, the plaster fell from the ceiling, crumbling onto the shower stall floor, where Maeglin found it this morning. The bathroom, which Maeglin shares with his floormates, was off limits to residents this morning, fearful of the plaster chunks...
...four smaller children file in from the outer room to present themselves to their mother before going to bed. They stall, ask for snacks. Benjamin whines about a cut finger...
...This is the boringest stall! Strain your wits, women...
...hand, it seems the tenants had a clear-cut case. Some had been illegally evicted and Columbia had been ordered by the city to repair the others' apartments in the north wing, but continued to stall. After tenants filed a lawsuit, Columbia offered to negotiate. But the university refused to commit itself to a date for completing repairs. Columbia officials insisted that tenants simply ought to trust the university to act in good faith. The tenants were not convinced. Still homeless, they went back to court...