Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Escape, the philosophers say, is a major theme of human existence. Man is constantly trying "to get away from it all, but somehow never makesit any farther than the Cape, the Jersey Shore or the corner bar. Life's grip is too tight; escape from the mundane constraints of reality requires creativity, daring or foolhardiness. Perhaps that is why there are escape artists...
...warm afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, the Crimson harriers finished sandwiched between Big Three rivals Princeton and Yale yesterday, falling to the fleet-footed Tigers, 19-40, but beating the bushed Bulldogs...
...realistic. He almost succeeds, and despite the novel's wild premise the reader begins to take Booth and his compatriots seriously. One member of the group, Bruce Parmentier, joined the movement after several years as a lawyer. He began his career as a public prosecutor in a small New Jersey town, but quit the job when he found that he no longer wanted to jail the people he was prosecuting...
...terrorists worry constantly about informers. Once, José and a colleague were asked to test the reliability of an operative who had left the movement for a while and wanted to return. The man was taken to an apartment in Jersey City, where an "informer" was being held, then handed a pistol with.a silencer. As José tells it, "The brother turned around and pulled the trigger three times against the man's head. Wow, was he surprised when it didn't work!" The gun was not loaded. The "informer" was, of course, a decoy...
...Friday afternoon, they encountered a bit of trouble. En route from their hotel in Somerville to the Stadium for a little pre-game practice, the Tigers went left when they should have gone right, and only a last-minute comeback by their bus driver saved the visitors from New Jersey from having to dine that evening in Sturbridge...