Word: grindinger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was ample evidence last week that the Montreal Olympics would have its share of such moments. Hurdler Willie Davenport, 33, who was advised never to run again after he was carried off the field a year ago with a ruptured tendon in his knee, came to the U.S. trials...
IT WAS ONE of those rivers which spends its whole life trying to seduce a highway. Coiling, twisting, sprawling libidinously over rocks and sand, forever ruffling itself up, whispering, cajoling, the river only sought to make the road unbend. Meanwhile, the highway dodged back and forth from canyon wall to...
A Catholic welfare agency sent the Kocos to New York, and another Slovak offered him a job in Detroit, sifting coal. "We arrived here without a winter coat," says Agnes. "We had nothing. Nothing." After several months of sifting coal, Koco got a job as a machinist, making gears at...
Dust Bowl and Depression. Humphrey dwells fondly, at times movingly, on the Dust Bowl and Depression years that scarred his psyche without crushing his spirit: "I used to see my father, his exuberant spirits momentarily giving in, sitting head in hands, grinding his life away between unpaid bills and unpaid...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir...