Word: afterwork
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...Come in a car, leave in a coma." So read a Nebraska bar's ad for its happy hour, that afterwork party time when saloons sell spirits at a discount. But with concern growing that happy hours may lead to driving deaths, an increasing number of states are barring barroom discounts...
...claimed some 15 lives. The Israeli attack was spurred, it was said, by the deaths of two Israeli officers, which occurred when the jeep in which they were traveling ran over a land mine--in South Lebanon. The Palestinian retaliatory shelling had been intentionally directed into agricultural fields in afterwork hours. The Palestinian deliberate decision not to inflict casualties, and their clear desire to uphold the spirit of the ceasefire, was not lost on the Hebrew press of Israel, which began to refer to this incident as the "diplomatic" shelling...
Back toward the front of the building is the Harvard Stand-Up Bar, which in the afterwork crush resembles the Union more than Harvard Hall. The U-shaped bar is made of cork and seems similar to most any spot where well-heeled New Yorkers gather, except in one important respect. No money changes hands at the bar, nor anywhere else in the club. In fitting with the club's extreme gentility, all services must be charged and paid for later. Given the milieu, it comes as a surprise that the convivial Harvard Stand-Up Bar was the scene...
...musical aroma of my subject, all the tones, all the characteristic motives are in my head, so that when the verses are finished and the scenes ordered, the opera proper is also finished for me and the musical treatment in detail is rather a calm and considered afterwork which the moment of real creation has preceded...
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