Word: derrick
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Most of us simply don't know a lot of words. It doesn't really matter: I have a Newfie friend (from Newfoundland) who can say "Laird sufferin' Jesus" in so many ways that it provides specific judgment on everything from a collapsing derrick to a pretty girl at lunchtime. And I stayed on top of the Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only...
...what the men are like, or even what their jobs make them like, we miss out. Cherry's narrative is always at the workplace--when he moves to the gin mills the talk is usually of the work. We get page after page, with diagrams, of how a derrick is set up and how a Chicago boom operates. This might be something a worker has to think about on his job, but it says little about, say, how he relates to the machine...
Multimillionaire James Derrick Slater, co-founder of the London investment banking firm Slater, Walker Securities Ltd., credits his hobby-chess-with making him Britain's king of mergers. Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of companies all over the world, Slater would then acquire some of them through quick, strategic stock purchases. Though he built Slater, Walker into a financial holding company that last year (the latest estimate) had a market value of some $360 million, he remained largely unknown to the public until he put up $125,000 in prize money to lure Bobby Fischer to Iceland to compete...
...Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law, told a Center for Urban Studies forum yesterday that civil-rights groups' total commitment to school integration in all cases has shown itself "wasteful, dangerous and demeaning...
...participants will include psychologist Kenneth B. Clark; Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government; Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law; and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the President...