Word: dinos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John ("Reds") Young, 19, and Dennis ("Dino") Thompson, 18, the New Thing...
Both sons of auto mechanics, Reds and Dino are high-school dropouts who long ago learned to hustle in the streets of Washington, D.C. Two years ago, they were snorting or shooting heroin, snatching purses and breaking into parked cars. They gave up drugs and street crime when they discovered the New Thing, founded by Colin ("Topper") Carew, 27, a former Boston gang leader who will soon earn a bachelor's degree from Yale. Financed mainly by foundation grants, the New Thing is, according to Carew, "a black arts high school in Washington for kids who have rejected public...
...hungry and it's the middle of the night, pay a visit to Kim Toy Lunch at Beach and Tyler St. in Chinatown. It's better than Dino's pizza place, a couple of blocks away on Washington St., because it stays open all night too but has edible food. Kim Toy has a good Won Ton soup, but fails to make good boiled rice. The clientele is shady at late hours, mostly killers and high school sharks, but the area is well protected...
...They finally put the fire out by dousing the flames with Bay State low-octane Regular, for which Mother Bay State, on behalf of the Bay State-Sinclair Oil Company, presents the Boston Fire Department with 60,000 green plastic "Dino" dinosaurs...