Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Later, Clerk Maxwell demonstrated that the shearing force which would act on a solar ring would prevent condensation of satellites--assuming that terrestrial matter is similar in constitution to that of the stars...
What they saw was a thin, balding man of 55 who looked more like a bank clerk than a butcher: a thin mouth between protruding ears, a long, narrow nose, deep set blue eyes, a high, often wrinkled brow. He looked puny beside two burly,, blue clad Israeli policemen. When he stood, he resembled a stork more than a soldier...
...Mary Hazel Houston, a shabby little old lady in sneakers, who padded into the Secretary of State's office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction...
...British defendants, ex-Navy Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton, 56, and his fiancee, Ethel Elizabeth Gee, 46, a clerk at the Portland base, showed far less bravado. In an attempt to cut his own sentence, Houghton tried to turn Queen's evidence at the expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced...
...intrinsic comedy been so unforced. Michael had-secretly accumulated a weird library from bookstore trash boxes, and its contents filled his mind, but nothing fitted anything he had to do in the world. Thus, when fired from his first good job as the world's worst railway freight clerk, he spoke that night in his self-taught Gaelic to a Gaelic League meeting on the character of Goethe. In short, a hopeless case. If ever a man became a writer because there was nothing else in the world he could do, it was Frank O'Connor...