Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spearheaded by the activist 23,000-member Copper Workers Confederation, Chile's largest union, the protest movement has attracted support from a broad range of Chilean opinion: labor leaders, conservative and leftist politicians, business leaders and farmers. Its leading figure is Rodolfo Seguel, a 29-year-old cashier at a grimy mining center, who rose from obscurity five months ago to become the chief of the Copper Workers Confederation and is sometimes called the Chilean Lech Walesa. Said he: "We are pacifist in attitude and active in behavior. If they hit us with clubs, we will endure. We will...
...Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging about her sophisticated life as a cashier in a movie theater. In truth, she is pregnant and needs to find a local boy who can be convinced that he is the father. Rev stops a bank robbery but, unfortunately, also a bullet...
...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...five local coal mines, confidently dubbed "the billion-dollar mine." But then U.S. Steel closed all the mines down. Now Roosevelt hangs around the house doing odd jobs and collects $188 a week in unemployment compensation to add to his wife's $112 weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney considers herself one of the lucky ones. "I have a job," she says simply. "I thank the Lord every day that I've been...
...begins over coffee and doughnuts at the student lounge in Rockefeller Hall. People sit casually at the tables, talking or studying. There is no cashier to take the money--instead students are expected to place the correct sum in a bowl on the counter. This is the Divinity School: the system is based on trust...