Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...waitress at a seafood restaurant near the waterfront. In 1971, when she was starting out, she reported $1,000 in tips to the IRS, but more experienced waitresses told her she was being "silly." The only response from the IRS, two years later, was to tell her that she also owed $60 in Social Security taxes on the $1,000, plus a $50 late-payment penalty. Says she: "I accepted the tax. But a penalty? Come...
...last week among irate feminists, who say police are harassing Foat because of her politics but offer no evidence to support their charge. In 1965, according to Louisiana police, Foat lured Buenos Aires Visitor Moises Chayo out of a Canal Street cocktail lounge where she worked as a waitress and drove him to a deserted road outside the city. Police allege that Foat and her then husband, John Sidote, a bouncer at the lounge who had been hiding in the trunk, bludgeoned Chayo to death with a tire iron and robbed...