Word: lifeguard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIFEGUARD...
...blunt accusation. He sat in the long living room of his Pacific Palisades house, jaunty in his Chinese-red slacks and matching sandals. The deep creases in his face and neck gave way to a tanned chest, under his loosened sports shirt, that was as smooth as a young lifeguard's. As Reagan saw it, Gerald Ford's campaign staff has not been above dangling a highway here, a hospital there, a loan from the Small Business Administration. He went on: "I never ask these delegates directly to come out and support me. They...
Nick was a veteran of the drug years. His jobs included: lifeguard in nearby Ormond until thrown off the corps for dereliction of his tower (he took long lunches); mate on a charter fishing boat; bagman for a big lettuce caper; treasure hunter for a load of cocaine left in the ground by dealers near an old launching pad near Cape Canaveral (foiled by a flash flood); and stunt car driver for a shoestring film that ran out of money. His heritage was Greek, and he knew all about fencing things in underground Daytona, and who burned down what restaurant...
...also knew about women who wanted action. He had been a lifeguard since he was 14, and women swarmed after him since the beginning. Despite knowing about the women who had paraded their needs before him year after year. Nick had the grace to retain a surviving romanticism...
...students will simply discover that at the firms where they apply for work the catch-word is firing, not hiring. Others will feel the effect of the recession less directly. The Massachusetts student who reapplies for his or her summer lifeguard job will be told that seasonal job applications are now channelled through the Division of Employment Security, which gives preference to veterans, minorities, and unemployed heads of households. The student will lose...