Word: liz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four cheery Oranges. Arnie and his kids, were standing outside the depot, peering anxiously at the tinted bus window. I hauled myself up from my cramped position in the back seat, marched out of the bus, and managed to knock the breath out of Arnie, Dave, Dan, and Liz...
...Liz had turned into a genuine Texas belle, with blue gook on her eves and Sun-In on her hair. At 15, she practically lived in one of the family cars-the big, gleaming '57 Chevy, which awaited us at the bus depot. Arnie hopped into the driver's seat and started the engine as Liz babbled about giant Texas scorpions which apparently awaited me in the bathtub. Between the bus station and the Oranges' house in North Austin lay six miles of dry Texas land, minus the cacti and split by the freeway. The road had six lanes heavily...
...Liz, I soon found out, wasn't the only convert. Arnie flew out to Denver every week or so to look for oil and stayed in a condominium he and his business partner had bought there, and David drove to EI Paso every Monday to work in a Boy Scout camp. To get to the movies they drove at least three miles, and even though the Safeway supermarket was about a quarter mile from their home, they never walked. Liz thought nothing of flying to Shreveport, La., to visit friends from her temple youth group...
...fact, a week after I got there, Arnie was in Denver for the day, Dave was in El Paso, Dan was at work in a pet shop, and Liz needed a lift to the airport. Since my father is somewhat paranoid about teenagers on freeways, I had never driven on one before that week. I went over the directions six times with Liz after explaining to anyone who would listen how nervous...
...Tigers took command of the final day's action in the very first event as Liz Richardson and Diana Caskey ran one-two in the 1650-yd freestyle. Betsy Lind scored a second for Princeton in the next race, the 100-yd freestyle, and the trophy was on its way back to New Jersey...