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Finally, he took a job as an unarmed security guard in South L.A. working a graveyard shift — at a time when L.A.’s murder rate was sky-high.

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Long-time evening anchor Wolf Blitzer was also asked to move to the mornings and, in a certain light, Acosta's potential bump to the graveyard shift can be seen as an accommodation of that.

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He was working the graveyard shift at Harvey Aluminum in Torrance when the melody came to him.

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She and her fiance work the graveyard shift at Amazon, but they went two weeks without pay after the fire displaced them, and have been jumping from motel to motel.

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He was working graveyard shifts in hospitality while trying to find acting work, and was rejected when he first auditioned for Hamilton.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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