Word: know
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a G.S. 13 but I've never used it," says Sid. "Louise said to me, 'you know how long you would last in a bureacratic job? About two months.' I'd blow up the place. Besides, it's a happy scene, it's not a pressure thing...
...Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest--but harder still to avoid, since everyone in Dudley Station seems to know where it is. The place opens every day for breakfast at 5:30 a.m., stays filled with customers until after noon, and finally closes after dinner...
...work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews as Grandma's is for Sid Gerstenblatt; but Leonard has weaned his child for eight years instead of eight weeks, and then, Leonard never had much choice about work...
...Since I was 11 years old I worked in restaurants and hotels," he says, "first in Jamaica and then here. I start in an American restaurant as a boilerman, and I watch and I learn until I make it to assistant chef, I don't know anything else...
Encyclopediacally, you learn everything there is to know about all varieties of blemishes and ills that skin is err to. However, there is the consolation of the pamphlet's last page, the message that CLINIQUE SAVES...