Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's hockey team has made reservations in Nassau for the Christmas break...
...think of high-risk jobs. Policemen face death daily. So do emergency room doctors. Skyscraper window washers know that grievous bodily harm is just a wrong step away. But then again, these jobs feature a certain amount of excitement, a few shots of adrenalin now and then to break up the workday routine. The pressure is high, and mistakes can be deadly. It's easy to stay awake...
...very repetitious job," says Larry. How's that? "We do a lot more than copying. We also do a full range of printing." Oh. But surely there are odd requests that break up the copy-shop monotony. "Sometimes people come in with Bibles." Is that illegal? "No, but I don't like to copy them. And some guy came in last week with a big, big textbook. I couldn't understand why he wanted it copied...
...limousine. "People mobbed me. They thought I was Madonna. They thought I was Rosanna Arquette. This guy came up and said, 'Who are you?' So I was supposed to say, 'Who do you think I am?' And he said, 'Cyndi Lauper.' I mean, come on, gimme a break...
...effective operator who got along with both the Richard Daley machine and the constituents of his black middle-class district. Under Chicago's notorious patronage system, Sawyer admits, he was able to place 16 friends and relatives in city jobs. Yet he was the first black alderman to break with former Mayor Jane Byrne and thus help Washington defeat her in 1983. He supported Washington's policies, but in a quiet style that did not alienate the council's white ethnic pols. While Washington won with solid black and some white-liberal support, Sawyer could conceivably build a more durable...