Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a matter of loyalty. A Carter victory guarantees a minor boom on Main Street. Contractor Abbett was already thinking about facilities for the Secret Service and Georgia troopers: "I hope I get my share of that work." Angie Stevens, manager of the Back Porch, a post-convention sandwich shop, had a forthright view of Election Day: "If he wins, we'll be here for five more years. If he loses-well, we've had a helluva good time...
Besides, even had the Crimson defeated Brown, this contest would still be sandwiched between the Bruins and the Elis, and since when does it matter what kind of sandwich you're eating if the bread is from Pepperidge Farm...
...sequel to the story is not quite as enchanting. The hero left for Paris late that evening for his Rome debut sitting up in a third-class coach, recalling the audience's exuberance--while nibbling on a dry cheese sandwich that had taken his last cent...
Brendan Byrne, the current tenant of the Trenton state house, spry, ruddy, athletic-looking, exuding Charlton Hestonesque virility, stood in one of the mezzanine prestige-boxes which ring the new stadium on Sunday, wielding a soggy ham and cheese sandwich in one hand and glad-handing fellow celebs with the other...
Houses Afloat. Allen accumulates the details until his account reads like one repeating tableau of purple waves, elms falling, houses collapsing, corpses in shoes and socks-all other clothes having literally blown off. Only the very sturdy and the very fragile seemed to survive, like the Sandwich glass and blue china dug up later on one New England beach...