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Usage examples of old-timer.

Not long ago, it had been one of his favorite bars, a darkened den with wooden booths, a jukebox of Sinatra songs and a painting so blackened by grit that only old-timers knew it was of Joe Louis delivering the knock-out punch to Max Schmeling.

They shared that blend of boy scout and mugger that characterizes old-timers in the CIA.

There was little likelihood of her identity being discovered, for Cal Galbraith and the rest of the Old-Timers were like lost children among the many strangers who had rushed into the land.

To hear the old-timers tell it, every pancake they ever see when they are young is a double Myrna Loy, though the chances are, figuring in the law of averages, that some of them are bound to be rutabagas, the same as now.

Perhaps one of the old-timers has a plan A lot of people at the table were exchanging puzzled looks - I cannot understand, - an old bony areo-surveyor said with annoyance - What blueprint are we talking about?

All cops were jealous of their jurisdiction, and nobody, especially the old-timers, liked bringing the Bureau in on anything.

The old-timer held a block of shares worth over 250 million francs—.

We had reached that point of hunger when brain cells begin to die, producing a natural state of stonedness far beyond pot-high, something like what I imagine the Hippie old-timers must experience when they eat amanita muscaria and psilocybin mushrooms.

These old-timers, I said to myself, have been handling black coal all their lives.

And Henry, being the Customs officer more or less in temporary charge of the Shadow Wolves tracking unit and an old-timer in this desolate section of border land, probably knew what he was talking about.

A few old-timers from Commodore, Radio Shack, and Apple sit in boxes in a corner with power cords wrapped around their disk drives.

There was a wire gate behind the camp, with an old-timer collecting an entrance fee of three dollars.

Hand trucks, loaded with brightly colored dresses gallowed from metal racks, were being pushed by black men or old-timers with the seamed red faces of alco­holics.

The old-timers who have hidden behind grass skirts, the ones with the mustaches, with the broken accents, the Chile Charlie types, the Sancho Panzas of America, los tontos, sidekicks of Zorro.

The old-timers knew what it meant, and told them all: It was the King's Invocation that came but once in seven years, and the Bishop would bring them all to stand in attendance, clean and fine in their livery, while he took part in the solemn ordinances.