1.   At one point the waitress, dressed in a starched pink uniform, interrupted the interview by peering at Monsivais.

2.   I imagined a snippy old English nanny in a starched uniform telling me exactly how I should nurse my newborn and setting sleeping schedules with military precision.

3.   Outside down the hallway, a young Thai fellow in a starched uniform is at my beck and call.

4.   The bartenders themselves cut quite a figure, dressed in starched white uniforms and performing their sleights of hand with a touch of hauteur.

5.   To hear Miss Henderson tell it, a chief concern of hospital nurses when she started was to keep their formidable starched white uniforms wrinkle-free.

6.   The Temporary International Force in Hebron, made up of a few dozen Scandinavian observers, patrols the city in starched uniforms and small white cars.