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Word: waitress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken a trip back through time to try to reverse the history of the 21 st century. Seems a man named John Connor is destined to lead the survivors of a nuclear war to victory over the evil machines-if his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton), a lonely Los Angeles waitress here in 1984, lives long enough to give birth. So the Terminator is out to perform a "retroactive abortion"; and another time traveler, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), has followed him to save John's prospective mother and terminate the Terminator. Thus begins the deadly game of hide-and-seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Girl of Steel vs. Man of Iron | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Casablanca workers Sunday night celebrated what waitress Margaret H. Brautigan termed "very much a victory...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Colt, | Title: Club Casablanca Reopens After Workers Approve Contract | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

Cambridge resident Nancy E. Judge, a waitress at the recently closed Inn Square Men's Bar, captured top honors of $350 and possible future promotional work for the company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Octoberfest Brings Crowds, Contest to Harvard Square | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...returns to school there this week, should have no problem finding something to write about. While her classmates may have been hiking in Nepal or holding regular summer jobs, Brooke spent four weeks on location in Nassau for a made-for-TV movie called Wet Gold. She plays a waitress who goes on a treasure hunt with her boyfriend, a scuba diver and the salty survivor of a sunken ship (Burgess Meredith, 75). The two younger men fight over Brooke and of course everybody rights over the gold. "She's quite a girl," says Meredith of his coed costar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...home champ is Leta Powers, whose nails are polished, striped with silver and pierced with little gold circles and charms. Leta works as a Goddess, which means she is a cocktail waitress at Caesars Palace, a hotel and casino organized around a spurious Greco-Roman theme. Locally, the Goddesses are dubbed coneheads, after the shape of the false hairpiece that is part of the costume. Unchanged since the hotel opened in 1966, the uniform, with its uncomfortable corset top and cutie-pie short pleated skirt, is as archaic as the clothes in a Currier & Ives print. The Goddesses, carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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