Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leave some girls reading proof and go out to get the early-morning editions of the newspapers and thus intercept the very last-minute news. I can remember Harry bursting through the night traffic on Broadway to seize several copies of the New York Times hot off the delivery wagon. We would gather as many papers as possible and retire to a quick-lunch counter to read them. Harry always gave me the Herald Tribune, with the remark, "Here, Russ, you read the Tribune. It's always a day late anyway." Whenever anything was discovered, either Harry or Brit would...
However, packing crates and the back of the family station wagon can only hold so much come moving day, and for many Dr. Seuss may be sacrificed in favor of Multivariable Calculus...
...shoulder-to-shoulder with Tony Blair and issued all the usual denials: "I never asked anyone to do anything but tell the truth"; "This investigation is going on, and you know what the rules for it are." Knowing that wasn't enough, he also threw some meat off the wagon to the baying hounds by alluding again to that right-wing conspiracy: "If someone is leaking unlawfully out of a grand jury proceeding," he added, "that's a different story...
...Their natural function is to reinforce habits that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...
Fortunately, not all luck was lost--a station wagon taxi had passed by the group several times during the hour and the group finally decided to flag it down