Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hush falls over the crowd--your janitor, jingling a keyring in his annual show of authority, emerges from the leafy green of Harvard yard and mounts the steps. You scan the competition, looking for an angle that will bring you through the door before your still-anonymous cohabitants...
...says, with a grin gleaming from under a straggly mustache. Carlos Lopez, another Puerto Rican, has just graduated rom Cardinal Hayes High School, where he was president of the computer club and editor of the school paper. He has just been admitted to M.I.T. His father is a janitor in a New York hospital...
...theorize that the janitor got scared that he would be blamed and so he quickly replaced it all," Robin said, adding, "where else would we have gotten all this...
...ground" swimming pool and a "full" sprinkler system for the lawn, not merely a garden hose connected to one of those little spastic squirters. Ideally, all this should be found on "a couple of acres for privacy," though the fact that Squire Mim may end up a landed janitor tethered by weekend maintenance seems to be self-censored from the dream...
...Oakland Raiders). You see, most suites in the Yard have one single bedroom and another room (or a few rooms) in which latecomers get to double up. So there's an obvious advantage awaiting you if you get up here real early, obtain your key from the janitor, and sprint up to your room with all your belongings in two. Once you've got the single, you are in the advantageous position of having the upper hand when it comes time for negotiations with not-always-tractable jealous roommates. Of course, there is something to be said for getting...