Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pork hadn't attached all that much significance to the damned game in the first place. Not like some of the guys, anyway. Christ, there was one dude who was convinced that every block he threw was a steppingstone to a contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sure, the Pork daydreamed a little about getting past the last Fuzz safetyman and hauling in a nice, spiralling bomb just as he eased into the end zone at Schaefer Stadium...
...there would be some subtle winnowing out of the rosters. A lot of the guys in the funny T-shirts were going to go by the wayside, and a few studs would be imported to beef up the starting lineups. This worried The Pork. Among the first recruits, he had been an ace. Your basic wide receiver. Not with an arsenal of moves, but your standard head feints and hip fakes, and sticky hands. A former JV captain for the Boston Technical Tigers, who had gotten away from the game, but was still within a few hundred pushups and pass...
...Fuzz training camp at Milton was that Freaks coach Gary Farneti was assembling The New Left College All-Stars or something. There was a guy on the roster from Oklahoma State, one from Marshall, a few from Northeastern, and a wide receiver from Villanova that eventually sent The Pork to the taxi squad. Earthquake began to tremble...
...people are scared," confessed Restaurateur, Tu Ca, "but not enough to leave. Some of the rich have taken their children to Saigon, but all the regular people stay." Ca intended to stay and defend his reputation for serving the town's best chao long (a soup concocted of pork, noodles and vegetables...
...advantage of high prices. The price of choice beef cattle has already dropped, from a 20-year high of $36.76 per hundredweight in mid-February to $34.62 last week. Agriculture experts foresee some decline in retail beef prices-perhaps down to the level during the freeze-but warn that pork will remain in short supply and therefore expensive...