Word: snakepits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hinsdale! Village of my childhood, village of my father, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents; village physically an idyl, socially a snakepit of ostentation and hypocrisy. Place from which I and my seven cousins and all our friends fled as soon as we were able; where once my father's friend won a golden Cadillac at an American Legion Fourth of July carnival and moved to a better part of town to keep up with his car. To see a page devoted to Hinsdale in TIME...
...have to shove the program right on the fans," he says. "You make it so they have to go to the IAB. Having a winner and getting promotion you could make that place into a snakepit...
Question: When does a college hockey arena become a snakepit into which only the most fearless of foes may travel on penalty of death should they emerge with a victory over the heavily-supported home team...
...would tolerate on a more traditional newspaper, simply because they resent anything that smacks of hierarchy? Real Paper staff members recall instances of pitched battles waged over trivial matters, and many cite a sort of combat fatigue as a reason they now want to sell. "The place is a snakepit, it's awful," says...
...always good to get out of that snakepit with a win. In fact it's always good to get out of that snakepit--as fast as possible. It's a dull ride back to Cambridge, but a stop at Salem's "Atomic Subs" (McDonalds was closed) can spice things up. And I do mean "spice...