Word: larking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported for duty. They had been given two days of crash orientation on the care and handling of gas. Run through a boxcar filled with tear gas, they learned how to apply atropine (the antidote to nerve gas) and how to fit gas masks. The job was not a lark for the 32 longshoremen, but neither were they particularly worried. Said W.Z. Vereen, who with his colleagues relishes the $17-per-hour double pay for the ticklish work: "This job isn't as dangerous as the mustard gas we had in here a few years...
...really a lark. But when they got out there they got serious." Thus Dick Smothers, the eventual winner, described the inaugural Celebrity Pro-Am Auto Race at Ontario, Calif. The $50,000 purse went to the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund, and stars of all styles turned out to draw the crowds. Dan Gurney and Poncho Gonzalez sprinted into the lead, lost it, and then regained it by cutting up-and across the infield-thoroughly disqualifying themselves. Second behind Smothers and his partner Bobby Unser came Astronaut Pete Conrad and Mario Andretti. Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted...
When someone talks about a pyramid, there is a flash cut of an erect nipple; when the hoodlum dyes his hair, there is a cut to the singer spray-painting a wall. James Fox is nevertheless excellent as the gangster, and Jagger seems to be having a lark. Few others will share his pleasure...
...Tony Lark, a black worker who has done political organizing in New Bedford, said about the recent rioting there that "the newspapers made it sound like a baseball game on Mars. But what was coming down was a real fight for low cost housing and jobs...
...Like to the lark at break of day arising...