Word: shit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves often aren't quite sure why they are competing. Tim Neville managed to express the feeling I was getting from a number of swimmers best. "I came to Harvard to experience as many things as I could, but of course one has got to compromise and rule some shit out. Swimming gives me a sense of being--a constant concrete thing in the buzz around here--and a person needs that...
...waitresses who have existed without jobs since they began the strike, Cronin's must be the immediate goal, but the waitresses also look forward to a day when all the restaurants in the Square will be organized, and waitressing will become a legitimate and secure occupation, not just a shit...
...always used to go on about how people who were smoking grass because they didn't want to confront life and their responsibilities and their problems and so on. You know, the old "drugs for escape" thing that most adults believe. Shit, man, there wasn't any life to confront in that town...
...court one afternoon for the trial of a robbery suspect he has brought in, Morgan observes: "We have a very diligent bunch of young public defend ers around here who . . . will drive you up the wall defending a chicken shit burglary like it was the Sacco-Vanzetti trial." Knowing that a suspect is guilty, Bumper lies on the stand about the circumstances of the arrest, partly to protect one of his informants, partly to ensure that the man gets convicted. Out on the streets, Wambaugh suggests, cops have to make their own accommodations...
...searches for a perfectly clear description--"...is like a pebble in my shoe; it's like blowing a wet fart..." "America has balls..."--again he looks for the perfect phrase--"...and if any of you out there take offense at that you can go take a flying shit...