Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gourley later sorted his haul and deduced that Henry or Nancy or both 1) smoke Marlboros, 2) use patent medicines, and 3) sometimes throw away the New York Times unopened. He is saving other weighty conclusions for a treatise the Enquirer is doing this week. Says Gourley, "There are things in Kissinger's trash that I think he would rather people didn't know about...
...that that summer might be different. El Tiante was brilliant on the mound--the team was seven games in front on August 23. The nosedive came--a total collapse, and the fishermen cussed them as hopeless idiots (they'd always known it) and netted all those frustrations, just to haul them back into the sea of their passion for the 1975 season, when most is forgotten and the boys are a bunch of heros again. That Freddy Lynn, by god, he's a natural--haven't seen a swing like that since Ted Williams...and Pudge Fisk is back...
...assertion that this unending stream of Bicentennial brouhaha is really the voice of the people speaking. I mean, how many people have come up to you and told you how excited they were about the Bicentennial? There are probably a lot more people who are dreading the long haul until December 1976 than are looking forward to it. I, for one, have already developed a deep-seated antipathy towards the number 200 and I cringe when I encounter any word that begins with "bi". Even for those who are for some reason actually enjoying this Bicentennial bombardment, the Day itself...
...shining through the Eucalyptus trees of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the ominous clouds that usually hang over California in the wet season of November had washed themselves out of the sky, and I was headed home. It seemed like it was going to be an easy haul to my home back in Niles. Michigan--just 1850 miles to Chicago and then another 60 or so and I could strip and dive into the brown river that swirled behind our house...
Louis remembers the days when bringing in less than 1,000 pounds was the exception rather than the rule and when one cod took more than one man to haul aboard. And when they trawled. "My father used to come down to the boat and spend all night baiting for us. Because we knew there were fish out there to be caught...