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Usage examples of speedway.

Husband material in the late seventies and eighties was in as short supply as ever -- even for long, slim blondes -- so, before she finally did get engaged and then married, after all this happened, she spent half her time in the mall office fending off passes from the usual gang of suspects, some of them higher-ups in the Speedway Corporation.

I enjoyed dealing with her because she was smart and hardworking, unlike a couple of the security chiefs Speedway had in those early years.

It probably meant that Frank Malin, the acting security chief at Speedway, thought he could handle the problem alone, whereas he struck me from the beginning as the kind of guy who would rather perform an appendectomy on himself than see a doctor.

Judy pulled through, she was going to need guarding until we found out what was happening at Speedway and who her assailant was.

The Speedway Corporation keeps a roster of mostly local neighborhood people -- usually housewives and college students -- who want part-time holiday work.

On Saturday night the manager of Speedway Cinema turned in a small handgun to us.

David Harnisch of River Forest, who discovered it missing at around eleven that same night when he came out of the Speedway Cinema after seeing a movie.

Part IV At quarter after nine that night I was showing that same dubious mug to the closed circuit security camera outside the main loading dock of Speedway Mall.

Cooksey had to attract Barb in the first place, but he turned it back on when he got out, and suddenly he was there living with her, listening to her talk about her job, about Speedway Mall -- how it worked from the inside -- and about how he needed to find a job himself.

Cooksey had a clear-cut idea of what he wanted to do after his prison stint, so when Barb wrangled him an interview for an opening on the Speedway custodial crew he went along with the idea, at least at first, but he also went to his uncle Tom Alton and got a false identity made up in the name of Cooksey, not Corcoran, that described a man recently discharged from the U.

The main point is, Speedway ended up hiring him -- and then Tom Alton got ideas.

She looked upon herself as an employee with a grievance, taking as much risk for a few hundred dollars as Debbie Alton was doing for several thousand, so she finally went to Mike Cooksey and threatened to disclose the scheme to Speedway Management unless there was a more equitable distribution of the profits.

What I said was simply that the thefts were in some way connected to the Christmas shopping season, that some factor was different at Speedway Mall because of it.

Heading toward the broad speedway, the South American attache was counting on a clear road for his quick trip back to the legation.

Without pausing to fire a single shot, Bugs took a flying leap over a fence at the side of the speedway and gained shelter amid a clump of trees.