Word: hangout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weary traders who were relishing the greatest five days in Wall Street history. On a typical Friday afternoon in August, almost all the brokers would have made a quick getaway for the weekend. Last Friday evening, though, the bar of Harry's at Hanover Square, a favorite Street hangout, was jammed with revelers. Said William LeFevre, market strategist for the Purcell Graham & Co. investment firm: "We saw things in the market this week that we never thought would happen." It was a rally to remember, and savor, for a long time...
THOMAS STEFANIAN brought the first pinball machine to Cambridge in 1957, and for almost 25 years, Tommy's Lunch was the leading-silverball stadium in the Square. But just this spring, the Mt. Auburn hangout divested itself almost completely of pinball, and put all its marbles into video games--even tearing out one dining booth to make way for the expanding arcade...
...John Dean's Blind Ambition and John Ehrlichman's novel The Company turned the history into the sort of instant legend in which fact and fabrication become indistinguishable. Watergate created its own rich vocabulary-of "stonewalling" and "twisting slowly slowly in the wind," of the "limited hangout" and expletives deleted." Haldeman, Ehrlichman and "the Big Enchilada,' as they called Attorney General John Mitchell, spoke a language of breezily menacing bonhomie...
...most innovative rock clubs closed its doors for good, symbolically ending an era of popular music. At Max's, Bruce Springsteen once opened for Bob Marley, the New York Dolls got their start, and a plethora of unknowns enjoyed brief moments of fame, But above all, the Village hangout will be remembered by veterans of the 60s as the birthplace of Lou Reed's Velvet Underground, perhaps the most influential group to ever emerge form New York City...
Between combat jobs, the mercenaries are photographers, actors, accountants and farmers. They practice unarmed combat, play war games on the weekends and hang around certain cafés and bars of southern Africa and Western Europe waiting for contracts through the grapevine. A typical hangout in Brussels advertises "Simba, the beer of Katanga. " Inside, empty cartridges are lined above the counter and photos of mercenaries cover the walls...