Word: jill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rhonda Sparks spent $2 for a spicy three-course lunch near the Palacio de Bellas Artes and realized that "the amount of money we brought down here for two weeks could last half a year." At the delightful little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price they encountered during a month-long tour of Yucatan. Such bargains are all the more remarkable considering that this is the peak of the Mexican tourist season...
...sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), one of the Australian correspondents, and Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous mystery woman in the employ of the British embassy. Helping them fall in love, and more than a little in love with them both, is Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt), a dwarfish man who works as a photographer and functions as an all-knowing tipster. Nothing...
...Jill 23, Jack...
...Jack and Jill trailed downstairs with him and waited while a couple of genial Cambridge cops scrutinized their bursar's cards and warned them never to get locked in again ("You take one of these guards by surprise in the night, he'll probably hit you with the first thing he sees"). One officer winked at Jack, patted him on the back a couple of times, and assured him that others had done the same thing before...
They walked out the back door onto Mass Ave, checking their watches--7:21. Jack still thinks they would have made it if they had taken the elevator. Jill still thinks they would have made it if they had run upstairs three more floors and hidden in the men's room. But next time they want a serene and uninterrupted night of study, they'll try Grand Central Station...