Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the deck stacked against them, unemployed strikers with families to support have shown remarkable restraint--possibly due to the historically difficult position of many Cambion workers: half are women, and a third are Portuguese-Americans, many of whom cannot speak English. However, in recent weeks Cambion has succeeded in bringing in 15 former strikers to work. Few other union members are likely to follow, but there are rumors among the strikebreakers that Cambion plans to begin bringing in new outside workers. Such a move would represent a serious provocation, with potentially disastrous consequences...
...cream in the whole stadium. But no mattered how lucrative the night got, what really mattered was being there, with the best excuse in the world, short of playing, to attend 60 games a season. Nightly I pleaded with Bowa to lob one to the upper deck before the game began. I would sneak peaks between sales. But mostly I cheered. I was into the works: Billion dollar scoreboard, clapping hands, ear-piercing organ, Mexican hat dance, Hava Negila, Da, Da, Da Dump Pa Da; Charge...
...Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after he had started a brawl with both teams running out on the field to shove each other). Now you can go to see baseball played. Now you who hate the Yankees can go and hate in the old bitter and passionate and utterly unavenged way that you used...
...abuses both Barrault and Lanoux have suffered over the course of their decade-long marriages. Pisier is an impulsive and flirtatious gamine and Marchand a priapic cad who insists on relieving his guilt by telling his wife all the lurid details. If that isn't enough to stack the deck in favor of Barrault and Lanoux, we also find out that they, unlike their incorrigibly promiscuous mates, have for the most part remained stolidly faithful. They are such innocents, in fact, that even after their relationship moves from mutual solicitude to romantic attraction, they make an attempt to remain only...
...security precautions at the Tokyo airport, the other 300 passengers soon guessed that Belenko was on board the 747 jet. "I hope we're not hijacked!" exclaimed one nervous passenger. Actually the flight was uneventful. Accompanied by a bevy of U.S. officials, Belenko remained sequestered in the upper-deck lounge until he arrived in the U.S. to begin a new life as one of the most important Soviet defectors yet to reach the West...