Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away from the river and the terrific short hole with the solitary willow behind the green. There was another round at Sandwich, a first round on that noble course before a first University match. There was no lying on the grass that time, but a rush straight from the station to the club-house, and a race round the course in a blue serge suit to beat the fading daylight. Yet the same ecstatic glory hangs round the memories of both rounds; I know that in the first of them my driver had a brown head, and in the second...
...fitting it was that the Terrier winner came on a power-play goal at 4:09 of the third period as UNH's Rod Langway sat in the penalty box for cross-checking. And as the final buzzer sounded at North Station, no one could question that once again, the Terriers were the best when it counted the most...
...field jobs. While living with the migrant workers, Woody meets up with Ozark Bule (Ronny Cox), a country singer and union organizer (Bule actually is a composite of several musician-agricultural workers' union organizers Woody knew during that time) who gets Woody a steady job at a local radio station. For a while Woody divides his time between radio performances and union organizing, eventually saving up enough money to buy a house and bring his family out to California. But soon after this Woody, whose repertoire by now includes a large number of political protest songs, runs into censorship problems...
...Finland Station...
...Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody is admitted unless the employee who stands guard gives the O.K. Billy has even bought 170 acres of secluded woodland not far from town to build a new house, hidden from tourists...