Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praising Scranton for preaching unity. Scarcely 24 hours after Goldwater's defeat, Rockefeller zeroed in on him with cleated boots. It takes no courage to kick a man when he is down, while his wounds are still raw and bleeding. Rockefeller seems to be a compulsive wrecker, whether it is a home or a party...
...Damn, You've Growed." Baseball, as far as Bauer could see, was best forgotten. Who wanted a shrapnel-pocked outfielder with malaria? He joined the pipe fitters' union in East St. Louis, got a job as a wrecker, dismantling an old factory. His Brother Joe Bauer was tending bar at a neighborhood pub, and Hank started dropping by for a beer after work. That was where a roving baseball scout named Danny Menendez found him. "Menendez was asking Joe whatever happened to his 'little brother, Hank,' " laughs Bauer, by then a strapping 190-lb. six-footer...
...Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...
...this store, as well, as at toystores in Cambridge, is a two-and a-half-foot item called Big Bruiser. Jordan Marsh had sold more than 100 in the last hour; seven were on the checkout counter at any particular moment. Big Bruiser is a battery-powered wrecker truck. It wrecks things...
...Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...