Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon enough, however, Sandy and her family have changed their plans to return to Sydney, and Sandy finds herself plunk in the middle of Rydell High School. Naturally the two lovers discover soon enough that they are in fact at the same high school--thanks to Rizzo (Stockard Channing '64), that is, who presents Danny with the good news while he's hanging out at Rydell's homecoming parade with his greaser friends, and Sandy is cheerleading away. Unfortunately, because he is busy being a greaser Danny can't act like the sweet kid Sandy met at the beach...
Courser has just placed third in the sheep-shearing contest won by rangy Richard Levis of East Kingston. During the contest each sheep is as nervous as a kid getting his first haircut. But shearers imperturbably plunk the animals down on their backsides. Then, clutching a forefoot in one hand and huge barber clippers in the other, they race through the shearing, rolling fleece off the sheep's belly like carpenters planing wood. Afterward, spectators see that careless shearers gouge into the tender skin, leaving traces of blood. "If it looks like Raggedy Ann you know one of these...
...teaches him how to ride broncs and how to fall to up the odds. Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy. Tom (Frederic Forrest) takes a tumble on his first ride, and Red offers high odds on the next event. The cowboys eagerly plunk their money down, and Tom rides flawlessly. It is a profitable little con, but Tom had something more conventional in mind. Fed up, he finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction at the "big shows" like Pendleton and Odessa. Called "Killer" because he rides the horses way past...
...waived the requirement that people who want to fly charters must belong to a club, a union or some other "affinity group." All that a traveler now has to do is sign up for a trip with a travel agent at least three months before departure and plunk down a 25% deposit. Agents must recruit a minimum of 40 people for each trip; all members of the group must fly both ways together and stay away at least seven days on charters in North America and ten days elsewhere. If a traveler changes his mind before takeoff and decides...
...when L.O. Rothschild, a New York attorney and conservationist, received his copy of Con Ed's 1962 annual report, containing an artist's rendering and description of the Storm King facility, Enraged, Rothschild wrote to The New York Times, and the Times, in an editorial, criticized the plan to "plunk down a couple of power in- stallations right in the heart of one of the most stunning natural regions in the eastern United States...