Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling about being an ironworker, a special life, special requirements and frustrations. And Cherry gives enough glimpses of them that we feel what's missing. But he can't bear to write it down. The book's tragic figure is Timmy, an alcoholic connector who's on the "drunk gang" (unimportant projects--usually wrecking) and pours out his life story one night in a bar. He is someone who was created by ironworking--it defines him--and when he recurs throughout the book he is powerful. But it leads Cherry nowhere: when Timmy falls off the 44th floor--just...
...scenes are familiar ones. A fleet wide receiver flings the football skyward after snaring a game-winning touchdown pass...A jubilant gang of baseball players mobs their pitcher after that final World Series victory...A triumphant tennis player hurdles the net to offer his opponent the glad-hand after whistling one last ace past him. Victory in its many guises--ah, how sweet...
...deaths followed no particular pattern. Some appeared to be gang-related, some were committed in the course of robberies, some involved narcotics. All but a handful of the victims were blacks. One 17-year-old youth died after an argument over a piece of chicken, another over $10 in a dice game. A third teenager, who hoped some day to become a lawyer, was cut down a block from his home, the apparent victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened...
...little run-in with a gang of punks from Buffalo's West Side. I was rowing in a single scull without paying very much attention to what was ahead, when, passing under the drawbridge leading onto Bird Island, a firecracker went off about a foot from my head. And then another one landed in the boat and went off under my leg, then a third and a fourth in the air above...
Thus ended the game of games, with a finish more frantic than it had any right to be.Harvard halfback TOM WINN [24] finds himself in the unenviable position of being in the midst of a gang of Big Green defenders. Looking on, presumably with sympathy, is the Crimson's All-American wide receiver PAT Mcinally...