Word: countermen
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...gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working literature's snack...
...waiters at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Stork, or even Maxim's, serve no greater variety of customers than the countermen at John's Diner on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. John's, as a matter of fact, has the edge-it stays open all night. But despite their deep, egg-spattered knowledge of human eccentricity, nobody in John's had the slightest inkling that a new and glorious page in the diner's history was about to be written when William ("The Laughing Bandit") Kampi lowered himself to a stool at 3:30 a.m. one morning...
...Anyhow, most damage from atomic bombs comes not from some mysterious ray but from ordinary blast (like high-explosive bombs) and burns (like fire-bombs). An enemy would probably blast and burn, rather than make whole cities radioactive. It would be "inconvenient" to evacuate parts of cities, but Geiger countermen would be around to spot safe areas...
...works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others had been named in the indictment. Three of them were fugitives. Four more were Dutch Schultz, reputed founder of the restaurant racket, one of his henchmen and two union leaders-all dead by violence. An eighth was the late president of the Cafeteria Workers...
...belief that, Brooklyn being overrun with trolley cars, all its citizens, including the ballplayers, were trolley-dodgers. The team's later name of Robins is pure tribute to the manager's enveloping personality. He is recognized wherever he goes in Brooklyn and willingly discusses managerial tactics with taxi-drivers, countermen, policemen, waiters. His tone in explaining his methods with these interlocutors is sometimes apologetic. He says: "My gosh! You should hear the bawling out I get from the wife when we lose a game...