Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Keep yourself safe...
...Sure? Don't hand me any of that 'sure' shit. Safe is a matter of working at it all the time...Be at the Nicholson shanty at the Frederick Building at 7:30 Tuesday...
Keep Yourself Safe. This is the watchword for all ironworkers. Cherry has seen friends fall off beams from dozens of floors up: all through the book there are quick noises and men vanishing instantly into the wind and silence below. They pay the widow and children a full day's pay, and another connector takes the dead man's place. There's another risk: unemployment. Ironworking is dependent upon the amount of building going on, and many ironworkers are lucky to work most of the year. When a job is finished, they look for more work, wait in line. When...
...anxious to "become" an ironworker. It's as though the wreckage of his life was so complete that he had to rebuild it like a skyscraper, and to Keep Himself Safe. He tries so hard to become an ironworker that part of him becomes a super-ironworker; the other foot twists uncomfortably in the writer's camp, so that when it comes to setting this down he has as much trouble defining his "book" as the Coop...
...safe to say we have ruled out food poisoning in favor of a virus," University sanitary inspector Charles Krause said yesterday, after completing his investigation of Monday's sudden outbreak of stomach illnesses...