Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter was asking Americans to set the thermostat at 65°, the temperature at 1908 East 14th Avenue in Spokane, Wash., had been held near 40°-not to save energy but to save money. 1908 East 14th is a drab four-room frame house in a blue-collar neighborhood. It cost $4,000 eight years ago, but at the time, as the present tenant explains, "they were having some trouble keeping the paint on it. Great strips would peel off. They were flopping all over the place...
...case of the shakes. He is suspicious of his guards and does not even dare turn for comfort to the prison chaplain. One reason is omerta, the Mafia oath of silence. Another is the fact that Dellacroce, in one of his favorite disguises, likes to don a clerical collar and go about as "Father O'Neill" (a play on a common mispronunciation of his first name). Lillo has no yearning for the last rites, least of all as administered by the Little Lamb...
...contestant." There is strained laughter. Brooke, a man famous for his sexual magnetism among other things, looks old--the last few months, the day-to-day campaign trail routine, haven't helped his appearance. The makeup he wears when campaigning smears the knot of his paisley tie and the collar of his striped shirt...
...three smiling, hand someblond children, she says, "These were all from the same mother. The youngest was only six weeks old when I got a call from the hospital. The mother brought it in because it wouldn't stop crying." The child had a broken collar bone, and when the doctor examined it further, he found several other partially healed fractures. "Only six weeks old and she'd done that already," Ferzoco says. "We finally took the baby and the other children away from her. Then last year she had another child and now this year that baby...
...less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White folks and nigger in great Co't house/ Like Cat down Cellar wit' no-hole mouse." The melting pot was a myth for blacks. While 60% of white immigrants in Boston moved from unskilled to skilled or white-collar jobs after a generation, blacks stagnated in "Negro jobs" ?as porters, janitors, servants. Indeed, their mobility was often downward; as white immigrants moved into blue-collar jobs, blacks were often moved...