Word: checker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as tough is Specialist Four Roderick Johns, 22, a former airline flight checker and draftee from Washington, D.C., who has survived 69 patrols as a dog handler with the 38th Infantry Scout Dog Patrol. Communist posters offer big rewards for every handler captured dead or alive, and fully half of the 18 men who arrived in Viet Nam with Johns last July have been killed or wounded. His only wound came from a dog-not his own-that flipped under pressure and nearly tore off Johns's right hand. His own dog, a German shepherd named Kentucky, patrolling...
...hiring female gas-station attendants who must be at least 5 ft. 6 in. tall in order to reach windshields. And-shades of TV's Josephine the plumber-women really are going into plumbing, because male plumbers are in short supply. Chicago's Checker Cab Co. has taken on 40 wom en drivers, and Deere & Co. of Moline, Ill., has women draftsmen, engineers and office managers. With even the supply of qualified women limited, some companies are going outside the U.S. for help. The Bendix Corp.'s Davenport, Iowa, plant, which last year went to England...
...childhood that vanished with the czars: a winter residence in St. Petersburg, a summer estate with five bathrooms and 50 servants, "a bewildering succession of English nurses and governesses" and tutors, long bicycle rides along the Luga highway with his beloved father, "mighty-calved, knickerbockered, tweed-coated, checker-capped," holidays in European seaside resorts and spas-all of it heightened now by the awareness of irretrievable loss. "A sense of security, of wellbeing, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present." It is of no importance that Russian imperialism underwrote that...
...main dining room is on the first floor. Anyone entering the building at this point will have to present identification to a checker at the door. The extension library is on the second floor, and Dudley House common rooms on the third floor...
...little cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...