Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Jerry Ford comes home this week from his circuit of European political palaces, he will be right back in beautiful downtown America, which is broke, hot, surly and drinking beer rather than champagne...
Altogether, divers and dredgers retrieved 8,524 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 127 pontoon-bridge sections, 16 trucks, eight tanks, 104 small boats and barges, ten large sunken wrecks and 15 airplanes, not to mention oil drums, anchors, beer cans and one old toilet. Some 686,000 mines and other explosives were removed from both banks. In addition, the causeway built by the Israelis to supply their bridgehead on the west bank during the 1973 war had to be pulled away. The Egyptians spent a total of $288 million on the clearing effort, the Americans another $20 million...
...Asshole--get off my car!" someone said, pulling at the three 14-year-olds. Beer cans danced in their upraised hands and they were more amused than surprised by him, I guess. By the time the crowd shoved and mauled its way through the gates 90 minutes later ("Hope no one has a heart attack," the aging man in front of me said humorously, his woman companion trying mournfully to smile) the car would have more dents than Cleon Jones's wallet, and the angry man would have gone off crying, hopeless, forlorn, hanging his once-proud head in shame...
...properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe things are changing in New York too--the Times reported a couple weeks back that stadiums across the country wouldn't sell beer any more because the fans were bashing each other's heads in afterwards. Maybe there's a new kind of baseball fan abroad even in the city where saintly Christy Mathewson once held court. Maybe so--but that's not how I think of Shea. I'd feel as lost...