Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told him she had breast cancer. Eight operations and a nervous breakdown later, she is worried about losing her new lover, a gas-station attendant. There's the Chicago doctor whose divorce and emergency-room stress led him to slam methamphetamines. Now a motel handyman...
Critics and fans say Thompson is unusual for the number of positions he maintains. Along with his seats in the State House of Representatives and on the Cambridge NAACP, Thompson works as a residency checker for the city's School Department and as part-time security guard for the University, working in the Quad...
Some of the disadvantages that come with being a human chameleon: Once, the Leverett House dining hall checker, Vivian, called the cops on me since I was walking around the dining hall in character and she didn't recognize me. Another time I forgot that I was still in my costume, said "Hi" to a friend of mine and she started running. I guess she thought I was a rapist or something. Then there was that time I knocked on my freshman proctor's door, and he started screaming upon opening...
...know all my kids," Kelley said with a smile."I don't want to take away from the personalaspect of being a checker. You have to make aneffort to get the students' names...
Quincy House dining hall checker Aurora G.Medwar said she, too, had to make an effort to getto know incoming sophomores. But the advantages ofthe ID reader outweigh the disadvantages, shesaid...