Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse player knows what to do when he gets his hands on a race track's cash. Take the money and run. When New Jersey's Garden State Park caught fire in the middle of a racing afternoon, the running reached unprecedented proportions. Parimutuel clerks stuffed paper sacks, attache cases, tote bags and pockets with more than $400,000 and headed for safety-and home...
Physical punishment cannot be considered "cruel and unusual," the majority opinion concluded, because many Americans clearly approve of it. Massachusetts and New Jersey have banned spanking in public schools, as have a number of cities, including New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., but 21 states specifically allow use of moderate force in disciplining pupils...
...executives back-seated in limousines drove past, we would display a hastily-constructed placard (Two Students Want Ride South) and smile, friendly but humble. Most stared ahead, lockjawed; a few were amused; one tapped his chauffeur, rolled down the window, and offered a ride to Indianapolis. Even New Jersey in the rain seemed preferable...
Only my friend's mother was cheerful at dinner that night. She showed us pictures of St. Thomas, and encouraged us to sleep late the next morning. But instead we repacked and tried Morristown Airport and Caldwell Airport and, it seemed, every other airfield in New Jersey. We never found the tanned young man. We had bad luck: the wrong weather, the wrong days of the week, the wrong time of year. But it was more than bad luck, everyone told us: in the last two years, hijackers and insurance companies and too much publicity have taken almost...
...tell you about the best beach in the Virgin Islands, or where to get a great pina colada. But by Wednesday I knew New Jersey's great airports pretty well. Don't pay a dollar to park in the Morristown lot; there are free spaces fifty yards further on. And try the grilled cheese and tomato in Manny's Cockpit Restaurant. Can't get anything like it on Antigua...