Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...habit I got into, I guess, in my senior year in high school, going to the Town & Country Lounge at Big Chimney, the Meadowbrook Inn at Mill Creek, or the Bridge at Spencer. I'd talk to the construction workers who drank hard liquor every night and went to work every morning at six, to the whores with the piled-up hair the construction workers screwed every weekend, to the pool sharks and the bootleggers. All that was interesting, but what really pulled me there on Friday and Saturday nights when my friends had dates was the music. In every...
Their tour of Harvard completed, the Belgians boarded charter buses for the Somerville Holiday Inn, which Felicie called "luxurious." They will hit Canada tomorrow...
...grim contrast to its publicity brochures, Beirut's 26-floor Holiday Inn last week was more a nightmare than a dream come true. The only visitors lingering in the shell-pocked, fire-scorched tower beside the Mediterranean were alternating bands of Christian militiamen trying to hold their hotel stronghold and Moslem fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body...
...battle of the Holiday Inn was typical of the bloody skirmishing in Beirut last week as the city trembled under the worst fighting yet in the eleven-month struggle between Christians and Moslems, right and left, haves and havenots. The capital was on the verge of final collapse. The crisis had international dimensions; with Lebanon unable to stop the fighting, there was a possibility that Syria might move in, and if Syria moved, there was also the threat of an Israeli countermove...
...also in 1973 that the College Inn, a popular dance spot, installed all-nude dancers, and four other competitors followed. They scarcely caused a ripple. One recent night, as "Latasha," 18 and from St. Paul, bumped away in the buff as the Shelter Lounge's "body of the week," Owner Lynn Vale scanned the room and pointed out a local agent for a major life insurance company and the head salesman for a leading farm-equipment manufacturer. "You haven't got any bums in here," said Vale...