Word: flea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shaw, 40, lives in Birmingham and works across town at a flea market. Partly blind since birth, he sweeps floors for $2.75 an hour. Normally he pays 80? each way to take a bus, but last week he had to travel by cab. The cost: $13.35 round trip. Shaw was just one of about 11,000 commuters, most of them low-income blacks, who were stranded last week when Birmingham (pop. 285,000) became the largest city in the country to be without a public mass transit system...
...whole last day of my visit coincides with the annual Peanut Jamboree, all outdoors on Main Street with maybe 300 souls in attendance, very few of them tourists-a flea market, old-fashioned cakewalks (for homemade cakes, each cook's name revealed so you know your source), bingo, food stands (one white, one black-with integrated patrons), puppets, a pleasantly inept bluegrass trio, somber teen-age gospel singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing...
...catches for 46 yds., was underutilized throughout. Buckley never got Cuccia the ball in the first half, even though he was single covered (and not very well at that). And then Harvard needed the big play later on, the fleet former quarterback was not summoned for a reverse or flea-flicker. Buckley also stopped throwing to his backs in the second half, something he had done successfully all season long...
After Rick Gallito powered off tackle to give South a 7-0 lead, Joe Auteri and tight end Jake Cheney exchanged roles on a flea-flicker in the second half. Auteri handed off to Cheney on an apparent end-around, but the talented pass receiver faded back and lofted a 25 yd. touchdown toss to the wide open Auteri...
Simms set up the winning score by hitting rookie wide receiver Mike Friede with a 26-yd. pass on a flea-flicker play, after pitching the ball out to running back Leon Perry and then taking a return pitch. It was New York's first victory over Dallas since...