Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young crewmen dabble only halfheartedly in once cherished cutter traditions: drinking beer, chasing girls and avoiding brawls with jealous local boys who delight in baiting the wheaties. Despite the myths of wild living, the boys mostly work long hours (when it doesn't rain), eat quickly, sleep a lot and save their money, a practice made easier by the fact that the Smalls, like most employers, pay off at the end of the season in one lump sum (minus small advances given along...
Though the Smalls have a good deal of capital invested in machinery, they make a comfortable living off their combines, but like the farmers they serve, they worry a lot about the future of American agriculture. "Farming is the only thing holding this country together," says Joe. "When it folds, that's the end of this country, freedom, everything...
...decline in the happy hordes of foreign visitors flocking to the bargain-filled U.S. They are destined to become a familiar part of the American landscape: buying, bargaining, hitchhiking, backpacking, snapping pictures, sampling strange food and occasionally getting ripped off by predators who know they carry a lot of dollars, however devalued. The ailing greenback has at least made America less of a mystery to the rest of the world...
...legal proceedings arising from his pending divorce and the shooting of his estranged wife, her lover, her daughter and a guest. Testifying against Davis was his former employee, burly, baby-faced David McCrory, the man he had allegedly met in the Coo Coo's Famous Hamburger parking lot to arrange the murder of 15 people on a hit list...
Said he: "Help me get back so I can do the work I'm supposed to do." Any FBI agents who came in search of the missing Yippie had to settle for a lot of '60s humor and the dim hope that Hoffman might yet show up at the Yippies' forthcoming Tenth Annual Festival of Life at the original scene of the crime, Lincoln Park in Chicago...