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Word: tonight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long while before explaining why she came in on Saturday night. She glances several times at the absorbed student seated beside her and finally says, "I'm with him." Another long silence follows before he says, "We're on a date." Looking relieved she explains, "We decided to work tonight instead of going to a movie or something. Later we're going to buy a Sunday paper and read...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...freshman who asked to remain anonymous, "because I might be doing something later," says he came in because, "I couldn't find anything else off the top of my head to do tonight. It's funny, I've never been here before on Saturday night and I decided to work so I came here." He said his friends won't harass him for working tonight. "They know I've been living it up for a while...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

They are dancing at a wedding. The man smiles indulgently and it becomes obvious that it was his wife's idea to come here tonight. Occasionally his eyes turn smoky as a plunging neckline or tight pair of pants parade by. His wife is less happy--there is a quality both frantic and clinical to the way she examines the couples of men who walk by hand in hand. The woman frowns and squints, as though she were looking for something she had misplaced, like a handbag or a half-finished drink. Perhaps she is looking...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...women have come with other women, and a few have come with gay men, but most are here with straight dates. In fact, almost half of the people here tonight are straight, which is bad news for a gay bar--when a bar turns increasingly straight, the gay clientel, whether out of resentment or discomfort, will move elsewhere. 15 Lansdowne has tried to limit the number of women (one way they do this is by demanding stricter picture identification from women at the door) but when finances get shaky, a customer is a customer...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Trainor, who teamed with Hughes to form a potent inside-outside punch for 1974 Massachusetts state champion Catholic Memorial, notes that "the Garden was always packed during high school and it's the same tonight. That's a great incentive for anyone...

Author: By William Scheft, | Title: Some Kinda First Season Phenomena, on the Ice | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

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