Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intervals, the author lowers his fists, but much of the anecdota reconsiders a series of onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under...
Housing is dear in London, but $60,000 for a broom closet? That was the asking price for a 5 1/2-ft. by 11-ft. room on Princes Court opposite Harrods department store in the affluent Knightsbridge section of the city. Though the cubicle had indeed been a broom closet, it was gussied up with a concealed kitchen sink, Laura Ashley wallpaper and a tiny window...
...team cleaning" into a 300-page manual of dos and don'ts. The book serves as the basis for training new Mini Maid personnel. Among its teachings: pick up statuary in the middle, rather than at the top and bottom, and clean animal-skin rugs with a whisk broom rather than a vacuum cleaner. Sums up Ackerly: "The homeowner does not have to feed us, pick us up, give directions. We don't give a song and dance about our car breaking down as a reason for not showing up. We are successful because we have learned the hard...
...passed her by and opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front door, she said, "I could hear all the clerks screaming as they were shot." Another employee escaped by locking herself in a vault where stamps are kept. Two other survivors hid in a broom closet...
...could give no more than $3,000 to a candidacy, vs. the current $5,000, and the bill would close a loophole that has allowed some PACs to channel considerably more money. Those ceilings would still leave PACs as major players. Admits Boren, who once used a broom as a campaign symbol: "This is only a first step...