Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were so many," she said, wiping her hands on her apron. "We used to serve all the boys. We sure miss the Oilers. Such nice boys...
...Common worked there one day and three hours. On her second day at work she had asked her daughter Mary to bring her an apron. Mary came down to the dinette with a friend, David Jones, about 20. "A man was putting a car into the garage as they drove up," Mrs. Common recalled...
...astonishment of a handful of passengers waiting at Rome's Ciampino Airport at 4 a.m., squads of Italian police suddenly materialized and took up positions around the field. Moments later, a white turboprop jet taxied to a stop on the apron. In the plane's door way appeared a young man in the red-trimmed uniform of a field marshal...
...game, stood in at the table for over an hour as one customer plunged deeper and deeper. The man they were watching was the stickman running the game, Clayton Gatterdam, 47, whom they spotted handling the dice instead of moving them with his stick, and occasionally reaching into his apron pockets between rolls. When the agents pounced, they found four pairs of mis-spotted dice in secret compartments in Gatterdam's apron; a fifth pair was in his trouser pocket...
...thin crowd waiting on the steaming concrete apron of Havana's Josè Marti Airport, consisting mostly of diplomats from Communist embassies, and the handshake from his only ally in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba's Fidel Castro, was sullen. There were no decorations, no honor guard, no military band. And not until half an hour after Kosygin's arrival did Radio Havana get around to mentioning the visit. Even then, it gave only a brief announcement barely longer than another item praising workers of the Balcan pasteurization plant for delivering their quota of yoghurt...