Word: cashiering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most uniformed employees do not even resent the fact that they have become sophisticated sandwich boards for their employers (many uniforms have the company name or symbol on a pin or concealable pocket flap). Says Assistant Cashier Lou Ann Lougher of Los Angeles' First Western Bank: "My uniform is a conversation piece. People stop me on the street to ask about it." Bank Teller Marta Ronchi concurs, "If I work in a place, I'm proud of it. I'm the type for a uniform; I was raised by the nuns." Although some employees find the career...
...campuses into turmoil by declaring himself chief of state and abolishing a constituent assembly that was about to promulgate a long-awaited new constitution establishing presidential government. Lon Nol did not care for some of the constitution's features, among them a provision allowing the legislature to cashier the executive branch of the government at will...
...movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane...
...revolved around the $650,000 that Howard Hughes is supposed to have collected from McGraw-Hill for pouring forth his autobiography in at least 100 hours of interviews and tapings with Author Clifford Irving.* The $650,000 was allegedly paid to Hughes in the form of three checks-a cashier's check from Irving for $50,000, a McGraw-Hill check for $275,000 and a McGraw-Hill check for $325,000. Irving claims that he gave two of the checks to Hughes in person and the third to a trusted Hughes intermediary; by Irving's account, Hughes...
...rather than leased. The purchase was apparently a precaution against being accused of theft by the leasing company when the helicopter was taken over the border into Mexico. The single-engine Cessna used to complete the break was also purchased-and paid for in full with a cashier's check. Both planes carried the proper identifying numbers required by the Federal Aviation Administration...