Word: checker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When we went to brunch on Sunday morning, the card checker was wearing one of those flocked plastic top hats you can buy at party supply stores. The tables were spread with white cloths anchored by vases of roses, and the little paper cards taped to the sneeze guard announced entrée names riddled with cedillas: Chicken Français! Tomato Provençal! Harvard University Dining Services rarely affects this level of sophistication when juniors’ parents aren’t in attendance; clearly, something was afoot...
...Midnighters, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer won teen adulation, if not radio play, for such racy hits as 1954's Work with Me Annie. In 1958 he wrote and recorded The Twist as the b side of the sappy Teardrops on Your Letter. After Chubby Checker recorded Twist a year later, the song launched a dance craze and became one of rock's seminal hits. "They call Chubby the father of the twist," Ballard said, "but he's just the stepfather. I'm the father...
...DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, R.-and-B. singer-songwriter whose chart topper The Twist ushered in a national dance mania in the late 1950s and '60s in the U.S.; in Los Angeles. Penned by Ballard in 1958, the song was picked up by Chubby Checker in 1959 and transformed into a rock-and-roll sensation. Other versions of the song became hits for acts such as the Isley Brothers and the Beatles. Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
House Master Judith Palfrey said the interhouse restrictions had even become impossible for one checker to enforce...
While they decided not to revive the old practice of ringing their bronze gong every time an unwanted diner enters, Adams residents have volunteered to help the dining hall staff police the flow of diners at the checker desk...