Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to Adams Dining Hall for lunch, communicated with Jane the checker through a series of gestures: touch hand to throat, grin sheepishly to lament absence of I.D., point finger at the Adams House resident guesting...
Until last month, residents of Adams House trudged into the dining hall every Friday morning expecting to find a snide, wryly offensive, humorous-but-hurtful "Oak Leaf" on a table next to ID checker Jane's desk. Handwritten by semi-anonymous editors, the comments on the back of the "Oak Leaf" in its classic form variously taunted, sent up, amused and enraged house members. "In/out" lists distinguished the cool from the merely average...
Does Pinsker know what it's like to have a "real job"? Do snide, shallow and sloppy (can't The Crimson afford a damn spell checker?) editorials in a college daily contribute more to society than the unselfish service of public officials, Democrat or Republican, nationwide...
They're the types who either ran things in high school or dominate sections here. Like Dave Aronberg, they never let you forget that they're around, lurking by the checker's table in the dining hall or at the entrance to Sanders before...
Bypassing the usual stop at the checker's desk,the celebrities carried their own trays throughthe Union serving line...