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Word: waitress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Into this dreary drama, Tina Higgins injects some much needed energy and comic relief in the small role of an Italian waitress. She has a wonderfully expressive face and a fine Italian accent...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Betrayal | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...chips (as much as $7.59 for a 7-oz. bag), Hawaiians like heavy grease -- as do certain Angelenos. Jurgensen's, a high-toned Southern California grocery, buys all it can get of these dark, oily chips. The steep price does not discourage devotees like Andrea Sharp, a Los Angeles waitress. "I'm not sure what it is, but every time I eat them, I think of Hawaii," she says. Maui has inspired knockoffs, and some of the imitations, such as the parchment-crisp Laura Scudder's, made in California, and the rustic Trader Joe's Habeas Crispus, from Oregon, beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: One Potato, Two Potato . . . | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...waitress. She so nice. I ask her where she from. She say she jus' lef' Columbia University. Don' know her name, mais tres gentille. We tip her big. She work hard...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...successful sale, though, was a good fake ID. A friend made one for me which I was occasionally able to use. The ID's ultimate success came at a restaurant where I was eating dinner with my family. When the waitress asked to see my ID, I showed it to her and watched my parents' mouths drop. "We'll talk about this later," my father told...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: In Search of the Holy Stuff | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

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