Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then stuff yourself with an Elsie burger or some other piece of junk food and then, about 11:00 p.m. you go to sleep because coach told you to get lots of sleep before the game. No matter that you haven't gone to sleep before two and the guys across the hall are having the biggest party of the year and your bed is positively vibrating from the blasting music and you can't shake the images of annihilating your opponent that you were conjuring up earlier and there's absolutely no way in hell that you're going...
...address. It had taken Carlo a while to realize that 8 Prescott St. wasn't just the place you went to pick up the key to your real dorm, and when he finally figured it out he felt somehow cheated. If this was Harvard he might as well have gone to Rutgers...
...Auchincloss novel, so he was sure it was a classy place. And he was shelling out 7000 bills a year so his son could absorb a little of that class. Carlo knew all that, and figured at least the housing office could have given him a roommate who had gone to prep school...
...wearing a blue corduroy vest and a T-shirt from his neighborhood volunteer fire department, and he was drunk enough to be smoking a very cheap cigar without realizing it was burning a hole in the vest. The kid's name was Larry and he dad gone to a Catholic high school in Queens without hating it. To Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while his parents thought he was at Mass, anyone who liked Catholic school qualified as a certifiable madman. Even worse, the kid liked baseball...
...took numerous power tens during the first half mile in a vain attempt to get themselves out of the treacherous water, but it was to no avail. "We wanted to be with them to make a move on them in that third mile--but after that wake, they were gone," Strong said...