Word: craps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson, who had battled (and once nearly come to blows) with Billy Martin during the season-with his arm around Martin after the final game victory: "I'll tell you, nobody better catch Billy Martin and me in a bar together and try to give us some crap. We'll be hell together...
...agonized over time squandered watching the Sox treat the rest of the American League like dice on a crap table, we realize that in the end the house will win, that the better-coached and more consistent ballclub will frolic in October. I may be wrong, but leave the champagne in the basement...
...from his none-too-fruitful meetings in China, was in no mood to rush off to another exhausting, frustrating round of negotiations. The Administration wants congressional backing to extend the expiration date of SALT I beyond Oct. 3, keeping alive what Rusk calls "history's longest permanent floating crap game...
Playing Mudbone, the levee-tender, or Oilwell, the "dangerous nigger" who fights the cops, he lets the humor build up gradually as the audience understands the character he is impersonating-or is possessed by. "What Lily and I do transcends stand-up comedy crap," he boasts. "We make it theater. We involve the audience in truth because everything we do is real. Both of us are possessed when we are onstage. Yes, man, I'm talking literally. Possession...
...When the lights went out, there was a free-for-all, an individualistic phenomenon in which everyone gets what he or she can get." Declared Futurist Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute: "They have no idea of what moral standards are. This 'suppressed rage' idea is crap. This kind of reasoning will make the same thing happen all over again...