Word: lunchroom
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Billy Watson, the man they call Opie because he looks a little like the kid from Mayberry, was drenched with sweat one day in the Mueller lunchroom, where he made himself a sandwich of white bread and vacuum-packed ham he'd brought from home. On the job since he got out of high school 15 years ago, Watson connects the aboveground portion of hydrants to the belowground portion, pushing iron logs around with the help of an overhead crane...
...current bilingual program to educate its constituents. Anecdotes abound about students in the bilingual program for six years who were unable to compose a basic English sentence and about the Ninth Street Elementary School, where "English instruction" consisted predominantly of three hours on the playground and in the lunchroom imbuing the English language...
...advisers. All the same, for sheer madcap ingenuity, nothing beats the unsigned memo suggesting ways to reach "our very aggressive goal of $40 million." The ways? Offer donors seats on Air Force One and Two. Put them at the table at presidential dinners. Get them into that maximum lunchroom, the White House mess. Never let it be said that only Republicans want to privatize government...
...possibilities. Dressler is only nine years old when he builds a display that makes the 5' cigars in his father's tobacco shop look more expensive. As a teenage bellhop, he boosts sales at a hotel concession. In 1894 at the age of 22, he opens the Metropolitan Lunchroom and Billiard Parlor, a winning concept that is expanded northward into the newly developing acreage bordering Central Park...
Colbeth's shares are worth $22 million. He says he still goes about his life the same way. He brings a lunch box to work, takes his turn making coffee, sits with his employees in the lunchroom. Yes, he has paid off some debts and put aside some money for his children's education, but his only real indulgence has been to buy a $3,000 surround-sound system for watching movies at home. He has watched Top Gun 12 times...