Word: mannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly brown-skinned man with the hint of a pot belly, he lilts into a delicate Jamaican accent when he stops to talk, especially when favored (West Indian) customers come in. He came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I used to go to work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn...
...want to be a Pewter Pot." He doesn't want to accept orders from the manager of a chain, and he doesn't want the government to take charge of his business, either. "You work hard-hard and you get your money and you got to invest it, man! It's yours...
...Look man." He is impatient, wanting to get back to his customers. "Life is a gamble. Sometimes it pay off, and sometimes things are slow and I take it like a man. Just as long as it's the two of us and we can pay the bills I satisfy. I satisfy...
Number two man John Stubbs led the Crimson racquetmen. Stubbs mixed his shots well to defeat All-American Jon Wall by scores...
Spending almost as much time up or down a man as they did at full strength, the Crimson "special teams"--the penalty-killers and power play--were put to the test. Some awesome B.U. defense muted the icemen while one man up, but equally stellar penalty-killing by the Crimson not only provided a life for the young pucksters, but--yest, we'll go out on a limb--saved the game...