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...followed the traditional route of my fellow high school grads, I would be returning to Cape Cod to take up my usual job as a restaurant waiter and--perhaps by now--assistant manager. When I talk about my internship search, all my friends at home say to me, "Why find an internship this summer when you can come work and hang out with us at the beach?" Then I begin to question my reasoning...
...ticket for a match. But Deng had landed in a France mired in a deep postwar recession, with few opportunities for a student to support himself with part-time work. He spent most of the next five years working at various menial jobs: arms-factory worker, waiter, train conductor and rubber-overshoe assembler...
...whispered and joked on the dais, Elizabeth Fentress, the luncheon's organizer, says, "you might have thought they were old friends from high school." After lunch Helms draped his napkin over his arm like a waiter, grabbed the dessert tray from the center of the table and walked around to where Albright was sitting. "Madame Ambassador, may I serve you some dessert?" he said with a bow. By the time he escorted her to the airport that evening, they looked like they were on a date...
...Washington's dirtiest tricksters and gave his name to an era of witch hunts: "[Joseph] McCarthy's idea of a meal is steak, very well done. 'Cremate it,' he tells the waiter. He almost always has steak for dinner, often for breakfast...He keeps irregular hours, gets up late, goes to bed usually long after midnight. A favorite McCarthy recreation is poker, but many find playing with him too nerve-racking...In seven-card stud, McCarthy will raise, raise again and then again without even bothering to look at his hole cards. Said one opponent: 'You get to the point...
...they'd have to pay for their own grub. For one thing, he would almost certainly insist on ordering for you. "No, you don't want the striped bass," he'd say. "The fish they serve in this place haven't been in the water since the Great Flood. Waiter, bring him the rib roast. Well done. Just burn her up. And don't go sprinkling on any of those Gucci spices of yours. He wants an honest piece of meat. O.K., next order...