Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange things when you're a Los Angeles Dodgers fan trapped in Boston during a Red Sox pennant race. It's early Saturday evening and you're talking to your parents on the phone. Suddenly you realizes it's Saturday afternoon in L.A., the sun is still shining out there, the Dodgers are playing. It's on the radio-right now! So you wait for the right moment, and then, nonchalantly (so they won't think this is why you called), you ask, "Could you put the radio up to the phone and let the hear a minute...
...Dodger's fan, you learn not to trust the Globe at all. Next to "Los Angles" in the baseball standings, the Globe will often print at the institution of the bus it says: "Not including late game." Meaning the Globe couldn't wait until the Dodger score rolled in from L.A., a faraway place in a different time zone...
...plaque on a door and all mystery within. The privately owned company, headquartered in a Los Angeles suburb, was incorporated in 1945, and has specialized in large-scale building and engineering projects in the U.S. and in more than 40 countries abroad. Vinnell served as the contractor for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, paved highways in several Western states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving relationship with the U.S. military for the past 30 years. In addition to building emergency landing strips during the Korean...
...miners' bathhouse). But the powerful images are still the pistol whipping, and the time one of Dan Sizemore's neighbors shot the dog belonging to his retarded son (Blackie, as Vecsey tells us several times), and the silent looks when they pack up to visit their draft dodger sons. Vecsey responds to the sense of alternation most, just as he stresses the frustration he feels when he's driving with the Sizemores searching for some nice music like James Taylor on the radio when all it plays is top-40 and mediocre country...
...Brien's great political regrets is apparently the fact that he slipped some distorted information about Humphrey's draft status to Franklin Roosevelt Jr. during Kennedy's key struggle with Hubert in the 1960 West Virginia primary. Roosevelt used it to make Humphrey appear a draft dodger. "We should have destroyed that rubbish," O'Brien now admits. He is still bitter about those "fairweather Democrats" who could not see in 1968 that Humphrey would at least have been a far better President than Nixon...