Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just slid. It didn't fall. It just slid," said Reynolds. "You couldn't see nothing but dust. Then people came out of the dust." But not many. Dozens of cars were crushed in the concrete sandwich. Officials hoped, against all odds, that most carried only one person. A mile or so away, engineer Bruce Stephan was driving home on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. He gripped the steering wheel hard as the car bounced up and down, then plunged toward the water...
Star athletes whose crassness is tolerated when they are winning -- Rose once made a scene in the Stage Deli in Manhattan because there was no sandwich named after him (there is now) -- are often stunned when the indulgence ends. When a reporter at the press conference asked Rose why he was accepting the most severe punishment possible if he had not bet on baseball, Rose was speechless. He turned to his lawyer, Reuven Katz, shiny with sweat beside him, who could only natter on about the fine print of clause F. Katz had fought for several days for language that...
...believed to hold a 3.5% stake in the company)? Back at Horace Mann High School in the Bronx, Davis' classmates said the pugnacious youth could -- and would -- argue any side of an issue. Even now he may be mulling his next daring move over a nice hot pastrami sandwich in Beverly Hills...
...remembered three solid days of canoeing down the border of Canada and the United States, replete with beautiful scenery and nights around a campfire. I remembered our canoe flipping over two hours into the trip and the bread floating down the river. I remembered eating rolled sandwich meats for nine consecutive meals...
...about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited her to a park to share a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, then showed up with the ingredients % and a portable microwave oven...