Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firehouse actually is a kind of fantasy world. It is not particularly crazy, but compared to a lot of jobs in modern society it really is unique...
...lot of small things--exams, the layoff--hurt us, but the biggest thing that was unfair to the team was that they called the game when they did," mound ace Larry Brown, who pitched well but lost his first game of the season against Delaware, said yesterday...
...will each spend about 20 minutes explaining some major concepts behind all the recent interest," Reiling said yesterday. "I will be identifying the main features of the ACSR report to the Harvard Corporation--rather than having a lot of busy people read the document, I'll be summarizing where the ACSR came out and why," he added...
Between fires and false alarms the men spend long periods of time waiting in the firehouse. They keep busy by doing rather ordinary things like practicing firefighting skills, maintaining their apparatus, or doing housework--they do all of their own cooking and cleaning. They also play a lot of ping-pong (a good game for the firehouse because it is easily interrupted), watch television or just sit around the kitchen table drinking coffee and engaging in endless streams of locker-room banter...
...surface, then, there do not seem to be a lot of crazy goings-on in the firehouse. The strangeness only becomes apparent when you begin to consider the nature of firefighting itself...