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Games with boards, pieces to move, and dice seem to be in decline. They had one at Woolworths called Don't Tip the Waiter, and another in which mountain climbers tried to avoid falling rocks, charging goats and other alpine hazards; but otherwise there are only the traditional Monopolies, Scrabbles and the like...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Every Child a Deity | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

Jobs outside the Catskills were even harder to come by. He got a spot as a singing waiter at a Brooklyn joint called the Polish Falcon, where the emcee was a woman named Sally Marr. Rodney hung around with her I son, who was in the Navy then. He called himself Lenny Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rodney Running Scared | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Back at Gore Hall I began unpacking my trunk--yes, trunk--and becoming acquainted with my three roommates. Being a waiter in the Gore Dining Hall, I was soon to know everyone in the building. Not until the middle of my senior year would I be able financially to give up waiting on tables...

Author: By Karl S. Nash, | Title: 50 Years Later, the Gang's All Here | 6/3/1980 | See Source »

...left the village to become first a waiter, then an apprentice metalworker. He joined the Metal Workers' Union in Zagreb. His native Croatia was at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Conscripted into the Emperor's army in 1913, he was sent to the eastern front early in World War I. During a Russian attack in 1915, a Circassian cavalryman impaled Tito with his lance, nearly killing him; he spent 13 months in a Russian prison hospital. He was an inmate of the Kungur prison camp near Perm in 1917 when the news arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Maverick Who Defied Moscow | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...commitment to truth and freedom from life's "entanglements." Each Sikh also cariesa kauga, or comb, to symbolize cleanliness, and a small sword called a kirpan to defend neighbors and the family. "We dress alike to stand out and to reaffirm our brotherhood," says Guru Datta Singh Khalsa, a waiter at the Golden Temple Restaurant...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Serenity Amid Chaos | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

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