Word: schreck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game is quickly becoming de rigueur for Wolverine fans. Wayne Schreck, an Ann Arbor retailer, said "We sell a couple every day and five to ten on football weekends...
Walser does not quite believe Fevvers' confession, and rightly so. Most of its details are incredible. Buffeted by cruel fate, the bird-girl sinks to enforced servitude in the establishment of one Madame Schreck, who runs a particularly nasty pornographic peep show. Fevvers, by now known throughout the London demimonde as the Virgin Whore, plays the Angel of Death in erotic tableaux. Hearing that her mistress has sold her services for a trifle, the rara avis explodes: "What, 50 rotten guineas for the only fully feathered intacta in the entire history of the world? Call yourself a procuress...
...sales may be a response to U.S. military actions in Lebanon and Grenada. The symbolism seems more upbeat than it was in the mid-1960s, when college students opposed to the Viet Nam War wore combat gear largely to express their scorn for the military. Today, says Allen Schreck, national sales manager for Schreck Wholesale Inc. in Chicago, a manufacturer of military clothing, "I think many people wear military clothes because they feel proud of the U.S. and the way it is acting in world affairs...