Word: waitress
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...sorry, sir," the waitress said. "But we stopped making that flavor about 10 or 12 years ago. We had a huge overstock of that stuff back then, and it all rotted...
Soon after her illegitimate son was born two years ago, "Jane Roe," a divorced Dallas bar waitress, put him up for adoption. At almost the same time, "Mary Doe," an Atlanta housewife, bore a child who was also promptly adopted. Both women had asked for abortions and, like thousands of others, they had been turned down. Unlike most of the others, though, Roe and Doe went to court to attack the state statutes that frustrated them. The resulting legal fights took too long for either woman to get any practical benefit. But last week they had the satisfaction of hearing...
...Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died the next day. Bertha Mayo, a waitress at the airport restaurant, was on her way to work when she saw the plane dropping its bomb. "When I arrived at the airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen...
RECOVERING. Karla Woods, 23, waitress who had been pronounced dead and placed on a morgue table for autopsy when a police detective noticed her swallowing, after which she was rushed to a nearby hospital and revived; in Champaign, Ill. After taking medication, she developed hypothermia, or low body temperature, so extreme that her breathing was suspended and her pulse undetectable...
...example, a middle-aged woman outlined her situation to ever-concerned, yet ever-cheerful co-host Peter Marshall. She, her husband their six children planned to move from Cleveland, where the couple found no work, to California. Since arriving alone in the West, she had found work as a waitress ("a respectable job," Marshall assured her), but her husband unexpectedly found a job back in Cleveland. Neither she nor her husband, she explained, could afford to quit and risk unemployment. Separated from her family, without enough money to visit, the woman explained her "fantasy", she wanted a tape recorder...