Word: containing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other people who died of heart attacks. Some 7,000 fire fighters were struggling to contain the flames, sometimes battling winds gusting up to 90 m.p.h. At week's end their job was not yet finished...
...with crooked passages and sudden stairs that add controllable menace to ensurable surprise. More child's play still. Even the temporary homes of the rich, the so-called luxury hotels, are homes with a difference. The brand-new Palace Hotel in mid-Manhattan plans a library that will contain 4,000 fake-fronted books, thus creating what has to be the largest fake-fronted book collection in the country...
Epps and Margaret E. Law, registrar of the Faculty, both told CHUL yesterday that their ban does not constitute discrmination against gays because the University's policy has always been not to allow student groups access to the packets, which contain confidential information such as grades and study cards...
...sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion in his divisions and compartments; not without reason did he call himself a "constructivist." What one sees in the boxes is not just memory, but the exact disposition of memory, an entrancingly just...
...Crimson defense buckled down to contain the aggressive B.U. offense for the next 25 minutes. Freshman Deb Taft played brilliantly on defense, consistently controlling the puck on her shift...