Word: diner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diner-out who elbows his way to a restaurant chair in Washington has learned to eat his food either 1) in optimistic haste, or 2) with queasy care. Reason: the insect world and slovenly workers are fighting a winning battle against laxly enforced sanitation laws and overworked health inspectors...
...people in the diner, their car seemed to whip sideways across the track. Headwaiter Bailey Beard saw a dozen men & women thrown through the windows, saw one woman's head cut off. Off the tracks went another diner, two Pullmans, five coaches-nine of the train's 16 cars. They piled up in a great, hasty W, tearing up the rails, twisting them like horseshoes. One coach was crumpled like an accordion. Another, slithering off the rails, hit a signal tower, was sliced in two from...
Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
...citizens, uniformed and in mufti, traveled 54 billion passenger miles last year-an alltime high-though U.S. railroads had only two-thirds of the cars, half the locomotives they had 20 years ago. Where 100 passengers used to be considered the peak for one diner, now a single crew of waiters may have to serve up to 700 meals a day, sometimes work from 5:30 a.m. until 2 a.m. next morning. Pullman porters, working over 250 hours a month, are similarly overloaded...
...object of their solicitude was Joe Diner, 62, steward of the Denver Press Club - one of the few surviving institutions of its kind in the U.S. and probably the only one with a club building of its own. Word had gone out that Joe had survived a serious operation, was about to undergo another, minor one. The "boys" made up a pot to pay his hospital fees...