Word: carding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the Yard for the first two weeks in a track outfit with your study card rolled up like a baton...
...helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court. "I tried being like other people," Willie says. "I tried to work and come home and watch TV. That just wasn...
...Previously, monitors couldn't tell the difference between a Law School bursar's card and an undergrad unless they read the fine print. With the new stickers, though, identification will be easier," Morris said yesterday...
...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
...Pope's position on doctrine is likely to please the Curia, which could use some cheering up. As a senior Vatican prelate conceded, John Paul's election "was like a report card with a flunking grade for the Curia." Seeking to salve bruised Curial egos, the Pope observed in a midweek speech to the Cardinals about the Curia and the Vatican: "It is not difficult to recognize our inexperience in so delicate a sector of church life. We promise to treasure the suggestions that will come to us from our worthy co-workers." One of his first acts...