Word: piers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body of literature about the Harvard Summer School is small and, alas, not particularly distinguished. It consists, in fact, of one book--a light romantic novel, written in 1899 by one Arthur Stanwood Pier and called The Pedagogues: A Story of the Harvard Summer School. The Pedagogues has understandably failed to earn for itself a lasting place in American literature; it is an inconsequential tale about various romantic misalliances in a Summer School English composition class populated by small-town high school teachers. It has very little sweeping design or extraordinary depth or memorable character-portrayal or that sort...
...more than eighteen boats, large and small, that go out from Boston Harbor on a regular basis. The Salvatore and other small boats fish in the Harbor itself or the Quincy bay and sell the fish daily directly to the many fish markets that line the fish pier. The bigger boats can go out for several days at a stretch and auction off their fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish is worth per pound. Prices are also affected by how much fish is trucked in from Canada...
Then Glomar Explorer, her beam too wide for the Panama Canal, sailed round the Horn and made for Los Angeles, where she rendezvoused with her companion, HMB-1. Fittingly, Glomar Explorer docked at Long Beach's Pier E, which is located only about 50 yds. from the hangar that for years has housed Hughes' gigantic plywood flying boat, known irreverently as "the Spruce Goose." Though Howard Hughes last month finally agreed to dispose of the Goose, giving parts of it to the Smithsonian, it remains at present in the hangar, a monument to his single-minded determination...
...heaps, and for the past few weeks has been salvaging wooden beams from his neighbor's yard. He is building a sculpture in his kitchen. He calls it "lobster pot" and it is destined for a spot in the OCS-OCL, library, Lobster Pot is a nexus of three pier-like beams jutting up from the floor and plastered with wooden slats that look like misbegotten orange crates. Lobster Pot is ugly, but Fisher's visitor doesn't know...
...hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will...