Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives at the end of the alphabet...
...rarely seen at parties or premiéres. "I don't know anyone who has been to Grant's house in the last ten years," says Director Billy Wilder. Grant steadfastly insists that he has as much right to his privacy as a plumber or a municipal clerk. When people ask for his autograph he gives them an incredulous look as if they were trying to crash a party, and if some jolly clod says, "Put your John Hancock right here, Cary," he says, "My name is not John Hancock, and I have no intention of putting...
Forgotten Interest. Reese was only 19 and only four months married when he killed his first man, a clerk in a liquor store he was trying to rob. Only six months before, he had been released from the reformatory after serving time for two earlier holdups. A month after his first murder, he killed a night clerk while robbing a hotel. After a fierce gun battle with St. Louis police, he was arrested, tried, convicted of both murders and sentenced to death. The prosecutor called him "the most cold-blooded murderer I've ever seen...
...House fell into hushed silence as the clerk called the roll. But Mason's extreme motion did not unify the Republicans, and it was voted down by 253 to 171-with the help of 43 Republicans...
Successful Sample. Son of a Belgian immigrant house painter, Stans grew up in Shakopee, Minn., then went off to Chicago, where he spent his nights studying accounting at Northwestern University; he worked days as clerk for a sausage-casing importer. Without finishing college, he joined a small firm of accountants, became a partner in three years, sole owner in 18. When he sold out in 1955 (to avoid possible conflict of interest with Government duties), his firm stood among the top accounting houses...