Word: blue-collar
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...remember. On downtown blocks that usually go dark by 11 p.m., skyscraper lights burned into the wee hours with "Go Sox" signs flashing in their windows. On Michigan Avenue, the city's main drag, cars full of whooping, face-painted fans slowed traffic to a crawl. In the blue-collar Southside Bridgeport neighborhood, Sox home turf, giddy mobs of grown-ups in Sox regalia (a few of whom appeared old enough to have been around for the last Sox win) descended on the closed Cellular Field, where they used brooms to sweep away Texas toast and hoisted signs reading "Houston...
...This is a real, classical ‘man bites dog’ story,” Weitzman said. “This is a blue-collar kind of situation, so it’s highly incongruous, somehow, and that seems to have caught the public’s fancy in some degree...
...from the typically cocksure Mayor Richard M. Daley, the savvy Chicago ambassador courting CEOs and world-class architects, or the hard-knuckle retail politician pressing the flesh in his family's blue-collar neighborhoods. A week after two of Daley's top officials were charged with mail fraud in a widening federal corruption probe, the Cook County Republican Party had gone so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could provide information leading to the conviction of the mayor himself, and suddenly he seemed a bit like a wounded animal, ready to lash out or, alternatively...
Sandwiched between the steel and concrete walls of MIT’s expanding campus and the late-Victorian homes and Haitian barbershops of working-class east Cambridge, the Garment District caters both to college and blue-collar shoppers—or anyone searching for clothes at rock-bottom prices...
...medicine but is stuck at home with a baby. Dolores is a latter-day stereotype and one that Breslin is less sure of than he is of the guys and dolls along Queens Boulevard. Still, she is vital and feisty enough to make his point about the gulf between blue-collar men and their women...