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Word: waitressing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dance lessons. The summer after sophomore year her parents again offered to pay for a summer of dancing lessons, and Wilkerson left for New York City. "I know I'm very fortunate," she says. "I've always known that when I am dancing I also won't have to waitress six hours...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: You Should Be Dancing | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...author of "Life Before Man," eight books of poetry and five novels. Atwood added that she decided she wanted to become a writer when she was 16 years old. She said she came to Radcliffe because "being a graduate student was a much better living than being a waitress...

Author: By James N. Woodruff, | Title: Cronkhite Society Presents Awards | 6/4/1980 | See Source »

...Sausalito they slept on a creaky fishing boat, waking at dawn. Is that why they call it golden? wondered Rick, staring off through a misty prism at the bridge. Two eggs and bacon, said Sammy to the waitress. They drove away from the high-way, on a wispy road through craggy moors. The road ascended, then dropped to beach level. Sammy felt sick. Is this it? he wondered, staring out the car window into the fog. Rick stopped the Dodge and they shuffled across the sand. All these beaches, muttered Rick. Sammy watched the ocean caress his feet, walking until...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Postcards | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...illegal to fire us for forming a union," Mittie Luetara, a waitress who was interviewed but not rehired, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Employees of Eugene's Appeal to NLRB About Firing | 3/8/1980 | See Source »

...exists both on and off the screen: a soft-spoken Texan in a Savile Row suit, easygoing in a down-home country way and clearly in a big hurry, an adopted Easterner who has polished his background instead of forgetting it. The son of a pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather grew up in Houston and played end on his high school football team, hoping to win an athletic scholarship when he graduated. The only place interested enough to take a look was Sam Houston State Teachers College. Rather's mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Houston Hurricane | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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