Word: sandwiched
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...South Georgia. The British announced that a small contingent of their marines had destroyed an Argentine helicopter and damaged a warship in the action. The Argentine government speedily appointed a military governor for the captured territory and declared that its sovereignty over the Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, a trio of archipelagos extending 400 to 1,500 miles from the South American coast, was "assured...
WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a man who once fired his secretary for not making a tuna fish sandwich on time? A man whose Williams College classmates voted him "Class Griper" and "Shovels It Fastest" in his college yearbook? A man who tried to explain away his $100,000 in illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign as an oversight? A man whose employees privately call him the "Fuhrer...
Albany is peppered with nine Big Dom's submarine shops. And there is a real-life Big Dom behind the sandwich empire-Dominic Basile, who is big (6 ft. and more than 300 lbs.) and for whom business lately has not been great. Says Basile: "We've had a bad winter...
...deal was cut, or rather sliced. The new lease calls for a 3,000-submarine payment in lieu of two years' rent. Gerrity, whose machine-tool factory is next door to the Big Dom's submarine shop in question, will dole out 1,200 sandwich vouchers to plant workers the first year. Ordinarily a Big Dom's sub can cost up to $4.95. Says Gerrity of his employees: "If they're smart, they'll go for the expensive ones...
...cheese-steak stand. This stand was right down the street from the Museum of Modern Art and got away with charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came...