Word: checkerboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a checkerboard floor and elegant wood-paneling, the House dining hall is hard to miss--and gets rave reviews for its round-the-clock schedule--open for drinks and study space throughout the night...
...with a checkerboard floor and elegant wood-paneling, the House dining hall is hard to miss--and gets rave reviews for its round-the-clock schedule--open for drinks and study space throughout the night...
...growth of Vegas began, totally unregulated, all but unzoned, producing a monotonous checkerboard of shopping centers, low-rise apartment buildings, trailer parks and (of late) fenced and gated pseudo communities--with, in the middle, the glitz palaces devoted to gambling, or, as Nevada officialdom prefers to call it, "gaming," which sounds a little tonier...
With the land in question a checkerboard ownership of Navajo, other private landholders and the U.S. government, the ultimate fate of the mine may depend on who wins jurisdiction in court. Regardless, the Navajo syllables To eii be iina at e (Water is life) have become fighting words in Crownpoint...
There are long family-style tables arranged in neat rows and more private four-person booths. And there are wide red and black stripes painted on the walls, projecting a geometric, checkerboard atmosphere...