Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Janie took me under her wing and called me "Baby." I felt the name fit snugly. I didn't know they used "Baby" just like "Honey" and "Sunshine" for any girl, just as they used "Tiger" for the tough girls and "Kitten" for the playful and easily tamed. Janie set me loose soon, and I began to learn the drinks slowly--Tom Collins, Singapore Sling, and Hurricane. The beer foamed up in the glasses. When I wasn't serving I stood by the big cast-iron door hustling people in next to big Bill. The air was steamy...
...last blues set was over and the place was getting empty. Only the most convincing queens and a few prostitutes sipping orange juice remained: a room full of "women" and "girls." Soon even they disappeared to some unknown corner. Big Bill and Mickie sat at the bar counting money and empty bottles. As I wiped the bar down, a two inch cockroach crawled over it. I started to kill it, but Bill stopped me. "Leave it alone. They watch the place when we're gone...
Thompson continues: "Falkirk Mining Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North American Coal Company. The project was set up in such a way as to enable Falkirk to benefit from large, low-interest loans which Cooperative Power and United Power were able to obtain from the Rural Electrification Administration. The contract between Falkirk, United Power, and Cooperative Power is set up in such a way that the more Falkirk's cost of production increases, the more money they receive. The cost of the project has already increased from $536 million to $1.2 billion, and the electricity it produces...
From Tony Santasoucci's land, though, you can see the fences and the airport-bright lights paling the mist. A man and his dog stand guarding the boundary between the Seabrook nuclear plant and the land, and as you set up tents and tarps in the drizzle, you have to think that maybe it is all going to happen...
...camp. "The press," acting in its capacity as judge of the event, seems to have ruled in your favor. There are lots of pictures of policemen swinging and throwing and macing and sneering, perhaps because a number of reporters were among the victims. You watch the black-and-white set on the Santasoucci's front lawn, and you cheer and hiss at the right moments and make appropriately snide comments, and when the Pope comes on the screen you leave...