Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hobbyists, exhibitors and camp followers milled and argued, chattered and competed in a giant tournament. To Paul Wood, 35, chief conference organizer and president of the hosting club, Metro Detroit Gamers, the event was as simple as a military tune: "It's nice to get together, drink a few beers, and have a good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish their very own rules for the world. Not only could they alter history, they could control destiny. What...
...benefit that each of us actually put, or at least attempt to put, some worth, some value in our lives and in our world, and that each of us not just sit and shoot the day, "with the sun on the shoulders and cold drink in hand." Jon Spinello
Such cries were first heard five days before, when about 30 gathered in the nearby mountains to drink, sing and roast wienies around a bonfire that set off the most extended reunion ever staged by the class. It was also the most rained-on reunion. Drizzly weather beset the wienie roast and transformed it, and the parties of the next two nights, from al fresco to al canopy (a stately funeral tent was provided by Class Member Jack Kennedy, who had stuck around Kittanning and fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an undertaker). There was no sign that the rain...
...that standard, lacocca will be officially free to buy the boss a drink after Oct. 15, the day he goes off the payroll and, not coincidentally, his 54th birthday. By allowing lacocca to stay on until then, Ford will be swelling lacocca's annual pension to more than $100,000, though the de-hired executive is hardly the retiring type. He has given "no thought to what I'm going to do at all, literally none," he says. "Education, business, government, fishing-I don't know." He would not mind being an independent Ford dealer. "Maybe there...
...Howard, I've always been a free agent, I guess. You know, I pitch like I drink -- one at a time, please...