Sentences with phrase «lunch counter when»

We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

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When he visits diners and lunch counters all over the world that serve AB InBev beers, he walks behind the bar to personally inspect the boxes of empties.

«When African - Americans were denied a seat at a lunch counter because of their skin color there was a genuine disparity of equality.

I remember a lady who worked the lunch counter, and when you would ask her how she was, she would always respond «I'm blessed».

This is the exact kind of thing I always wished I had waiting for me when I would try to pack lunch for the office, instead of the same old leftovers or deli counter dry turkey sandwich — not just a salad but a welcome break from routine.

The front is an all - day to - go counter selling sandwiches, soups, and grain bowls (when the restaurant opens for dinner in a few weeks, it'll be bar seating), while the back dining room is made for airy power lunches.

When there babies are evolving to tots they will need the stools to step up to the bathroom counter to brush their teeth, in the kitchen helping mommy prepare lunch, and to reach books on their dresser.

When I was a boy, many cities still had separate drinking fountains and lunch counters and washrooms for blacks and whites.»

Always ahead of his time, Kunstler's lifelong commitment to civil rights began when he went to Mississippi to defend Freedom Riders being arrested for trying to integrate lunch counters and other public accommodations.

The Woolworth's lunch counter stools where four African American students held a sit - in, in 1960, when denied service, is on display.

This first of three volumes of Lewis» story brings him from boyhood on the farm, where he doted over the chickens and dreamed of being a preacher, through high school to college, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation — to begin with, at the department - store lunch counters of Nashville.

Are we less ethical than we used to be — perhaps when we wouldn't allow people to sit at lunch counters on the basis of skin color?

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit - in movement began on February 1, 1960, when four African - American college students sat down at the whites - only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina.