Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following the terms set out by last year's Good Friday agreement, Britain ended 27 years of direct rule, giving local politicians the power to run Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland, in turn, has relinquished its constitutional territorial claim to the British province...
...beginning, all rooms are created equal: three pieces of standard-issue furniture and a wad of poster gum. But some students turn their cubes into castles with a special flair. They go beyond postering with the Table of Elements and I Believe in Me banners, seeking to escape from a mundane, one-size-fits-all lifestyle. They submerge themselves in make-believe fantasylands. They create their own waterfalls...
...empty 40 of Bud, and the background music is the Led Zeppelin boxed set. After a number of spins, Tad is called into the game. He eagerly steps up, hands his camera to a stranger and wins an extensive kiss from Evie Stone. I fail to realize the next turn is mine. Claiming journalistic immunity and sinking deeper into the couch, I try to work my way out of it, but my friend Emily Lin starts the room chanting "Lisa, Lisa, Lisa," and I am left with no choice but to play. My spin lands me a kiss from Dave...
...heads turn toward us with shocked looks as we enter the Winthrop JCR. We worry that this may be a tough crash. We vigorously integrate ourselves into the action, latching on to whomever we know, though our new and old friends seem a bit reluctant to claim...
...fine. He had a big old laugh. So we said "We're gonna get you." So we got about ten football players, a bunch of tissue, tape, shaving cream and streamers. And we wrapped them around his truck. And we had football players pick up his truck and turn it horizontal in the parking place. We were like "We told you you were going DOWN!" The principal called us into the office next week pretending there was some serious charge and he took out handcuffs. They were about to arrest me. But it was just a joke...