Word: moonlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backdrop of this psychodrama is irresistible to stay-at-homes. A bald eagle nests on the island; wolves come close enough to the house to be easily seen in the moonlight. Though she went off looking for permanence, Arthur discovers that she is a connoisseur of flux. The lake evokes her keenest descriptions: during a storm "the water was stirred every few minutes by a gigantic sweep like the slap of a hand." On a sunny day "the lake is ocean blue, throwing back the face of the sky and then catching it again...
...leaking pipe; or holding down a second job as a furniture mover or apartment painter. Na levo can and does, however, also extend to smuggling consumer goods in from the West, running a hidden factory, stealing state-owned materials and skipping out from work on a state job to moonlight privately...
...Force statistics show that an astonishing 86% of enlisted personnel and 51% of officers moonlight at civilian jobs or have spouses who work. Typical is Sergeant Joe McCrary, a 24-year-old marksmanship instructor at Lackland Air Force Base. During most of his six years in the Air Force he has held second jobs; his latest was bartending in a VFW hall...
...stretched to the brink," says Robinson, who takes home $760 monthly. He and his wife moonlight as apartment managers; Robinson makes more in his part-time work than in his Marine job and looks upon his service pay as "little more than spending money." He also resents the way other Americans treat the military. Says Robinson: "The Marines have no prestige any more. We are looked down upon...
...tell you what I'm thinking. When I was in school in the 1930s, I wanted to make the hockey team. I went out in the moonlight and practiced hockey. Another boy, he'd shoot at me. Well, I made it, babe, but I was out night after night after night, practicing. It's the same way in business. Only something that you start working on today will pay off in five or ten years...