Word: storeroomful
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However, the current condition is a hollow truce and not a resolution. As it is on the blackboard of the second floor storeroom, the fundamental question here, "Ain't they got no shame?" is still unanswered...
...evidence that the 40 occupiers inside had tampered with any of the University's files and records. Garbage had been regularly collected and stuffed in plastic trash bags. Loaves of bread, jars of peanut butter and jam, and cans of coffee and tea were neatly stacked in the occupation storeroom, and the long hallway on the second floor was swept clean...
...nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although it got competition from ricky-chow, an onomatopoeic description of the twanging bedsprings in the Boonville Hotel's honeymoon suite...
...ended by reat-tnbuting no fewer than 30 paintings and some 70 drawings to Jordaens. Among them is a princely portrait that had hung for 108 years in Scotland's Rossie Priory labeled "General Velasquez by Rubens." Another, portraying the infant Bacchus, Jaffé pulled from a musty storeroom in Warsaw's National Museum...
Many students at some time have this feeling of impersonality, of being separately wrapped packages on a storeroom shelf. The resulting dissatisfaction drives some to drop out, to see a psychiatrist, or to resignation; others overcome it by finding new perspectives or new friends. One group of students have found a gutsy life in a cramped little house near Inman Square called Wellmet...