Word: laundromat
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...gutsy nut, more guts than brains, some say. But there were so many things that were not here, and what was here was a monopoly and crummy. There still is no Laundromat, no bowling alley, no skating rink." A skating rink in Alaska...
...wished I were back in the laundromat, running out of fabric softener. "How did you do that?" I choked...
...Mason), and a four-year-old child who has been told her mother was "in the hospital." Room and board no longer come courtesy of the taxpayer's dollar. Finding it impossible to make ends meet, she turns to Sonny for help, and he, needing capital to start a laundromat business, joins in a "safe" cocaine-dealing ring. Is Sally out for good? Maybe not. Sonny operates from her apartment, implicating her in his crimes, as he had in their forging operation...
...whom the Kerr-McGee project seems like a good idea. But they know enough to keep quiet. Storekeepers say they have been threatened with arson if they do business with the newcomer. Many citizens are chary of talking with strangers. A strapping young man emerging from Ragsdale's Laundromat says that, although he needs a job, he turned down $14 an hour to join nonunion construction workers. "My dad's a miner. He'd kill me if I even talked with scabs...
...going into the drawer or into the wastebasket; more Christmas shoppers this year paid with cash than with plastic. Purchases that cannot be paid for immediately are often postponed. Last week when the washing machine wouldn't work, Cookie Sullivan, 35, a Winchester, Va., secretary headed for the Laundromat. Says she: "I'll be damned if my husband and I can afford a new machine with today's financing charges...