Word: apprenticeships
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...affluent lawyer, Barnett clung to his boyhood ambition to achieve public office. In 1951, without bothering to serve a political apprenticeship, he plunged in as a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He lost, tried and lost again in 1955, finally won in 1959. The secret of his success: as the most outspoken racist among all Mississippi's segregationist politicians, Barnett won the support of the state's powerful white Citizens' Councils. Most Mississippi politicians refer to Negroes as "niggras" in public speeches; Barnett unfailingly called them "niggers," drew cheers, chuckles -and votes-from rural audiences...
...senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife." The tricks are the same in the deadfalls of Miami, Cleveland and Chicago's sinful suburb, Calumet City; in the bleak hope of becoming "exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they...
Canadian-born, the daughter of a machinist, Bonnie did her apprenticeship in U.S. coffeehouses and Canadian lumber camps...
Parish Parson. Barth spent a year grappling with Von Harnack's historicism. absorbed more liberal theology at the universities of Tubingen and Marburg before being ordained in 1908 by his father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...
...Realities in Amber. Like Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the ancestor of most German philosophical novels, The Demons is a search for reality. The title refers to a medieval manuscript-discovered in the course of the story and included in toto-that implies that each man's demon is a second, obsessive, false reality, which he must learn to discard or to unify with his true self...