Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEXT MORNING'S weather--the wind and rain in New Jersey and the occasional tornadoes further south--should have told us all we needed to know. Instead we drove through the drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a busy, private-commercial airport with 15,000 employees. That morning, it seemed, all 15,000 had called in sick. Little airplanes squatted in neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking...
...hitchhike. A cheap way to a suntan, they said, with a chance for adventure besides. In the weeks before spring break my friend and I dared each other and boasted to others until we had no choice: we would drive to her home in New Jersey on Sunday and air hitchhike south on Monday--anywhere south. Easy...
...friend's mother in New Jersey did not share our enthusiasm and tempted us away from danger--first with common sense (you never know when those little planes will run out of gas), then with theatre tickets, and finally, in desperation, with an acquaintance's condominium in St. Thomas that just happened, she said, to be empty. We would pay the air fare, but then paradise would come free. "A view of the gulf", she said. "Available tennis courts. It never rains more than ten minutes a day". Don't be silly, we said. Why enrich Eastern Airlines...
...race. The Associated Press, for example, in its first bulletin decided Bally was actually Mario Cuevas, a Mexican runner who finished second in 1976. Cynics would say that to most Americans a Turk looks like a Mexican, but Bally did have a half-moon and star on his racing jersey, which is hardly a Mexican emblem. To be charitable, one could say the mistake was made because no one could believe the unheralded Bally had run a 2:15.44. After all, Veli Bally is not a household word, even if he was the only Turk entered in this year...
...Radcliffe heavyweights, rowing against Princeton that morning, had taken both Radcliffe Schoenbrod racing shells to New Jersey, leaving the lightweights to compete in a borrowed Terrier shell...