Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Then one day last spring volunteers swarmed like carpenter ants over the Hartsville, S.C., neighborhood, slapping paint, hammering walls, shingling roofs, shoring up porches. By day's end, Ketter's house, like 37 others in town, had been delivered from ruin. "I didn't know something like this could happen," marveled Ketter, 34, who is pregnant with her second child. "This will make all the difference in my life...
...volunteers in 50 cities and towns from Vermont to California in renovating more than a thousand homes that are near collapse. Better to rebuild old dwellings, they figure, than to build new homeless shelters. In one day of hard work the 1,000 Hartsville volunteers used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with an enviable provision: if they fell short, Sonoco Products Co., a plastics-packaging giant acting as sponsor, would write a check for the difference...
Harvard outrebounded CCSU, 55-41, led by junior forward Heather Harris' 11 ferocious boards. Mazanec was hammered all night long in the paint but hung tough to score 13 points and pull down eight rebounds...
...seen the `Big Guy' hold his sieve/funnel/vaccuum/black hole signs. I've seen three students dressed in gas station attendant attire. I've seen clown masks. I've seen bunny masks. I've seen face paint. I've heard loud, obnoxious cheers...
...coats the steps with ice -- a simple matter of spraying them with water -- and swings paint cans from the banister. Christmas ornaments are strewn about the floor like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...