Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the summer the Louisiana law forbids shrimping in "inside" waters. This is to protect the breeding grounds in the marshes and lakes, to assure there will be something to harvest each year when open season comes round. The shrimpers in these parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called...
...Eddie rants, and Richard Cretini catches up along toward midnight and lets down his nets, but no one is hauling in anything to speak of. By first light not a boat is left in the channel. There had been cruel words on the radio all night -- all summer, for that matter -- but no violence...
...with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue her commercial endorsements and hopes to be an NBC commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know...
...dusty Pan Am shuttle terminal in New York City, balloons, powder blue T shirts, Danish pastries and champagne greeted bleary-eyed passengers as they queued for the maiden 6:30 a.m. flight to Washington. Over at the Eastern shuttle, where pre-emptive "upgrading" of the service began last summer, the attendants were more attentive than ever. When a New York filmmaker boarded the 9 a.m. shuttle to Washington carrying a half-eaten sandwich, an attendant exclaimed in mock horror, "Don't tell me you brought your own bagel?" Behind her lay rows of orange bags bearing the Eastern shuttle...
...jolly mood." Thus a court insider described the atmosphere as the Rehnquist Court went to work in closed session for the first time last week. With William Rehnquist newly sworn as its Chief and Antonin Scalia the newest Associate Justice, the reassembled U.S. Supreme Court began going through the summer's accumulation of new cases. The transition has proceeded smoothly. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger moved out of his chambers early so they could be repainted, and most of Rehnquist's pictures and effects are now tidily in place. Burger retains a smaller office, for retired Justices...