Word: pub
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard should consider services such as xeroxing and book-selling reserve reading check-out and faculty talks, a 24-hour snack bar and a pub with a band, so the center could serve a variety of academic and social needs. If it were filled with performing groups and used for parties and receptions, the center could even revitalize the campus' moribund social life...
Fortunately for Jane, the shuttle came quickly. Fortunately for me too, because I felt a little weird about going into a pub at 9 a.m. in front of a bunch of nurses. But clearly that was my next step. If you stand at the subway entrance, without taking a single step you can see the Cornerstone, the Quiet Man, Triple O's, Cronin's and Ahmane's pubs. If you move at all, you can see more. And on every side of the pubs were the factories and the billboards...
From inside the factories the whirring of industrial productivity warned me that hard hats would probably be required. So the factories were out for exploration. That's all right, I like pubs better. Unfortunately so early in the morning, only two were open. In Cronin's pub the manager was chopping onions and watching Pep Rally Week on one of the game shows. In another, four men in logo t-shirts were polishing linoleum counter tops and floors...
...night Jackson was to speak before the Democratic National Convention, I sat at my neighborhood pub pleading with the bartender to switch the channel from ESPN to the network convention coverage. A good tip won out over the rowdy clientele, and the semi-drunken crowd began to listen to the words of the man who had become the nation's latest political phenomenon...
...conversation with them. I discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...