Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the bowling league will meet at such and such a time, let's hear how the news may affect us personally." Ray Hollenbeck, regional sales manager of a drug firm in Kansas City, shook his head in wonderment: "Who would have ever thought that an African postal clerk named Lumumba would be a bigger crisis here at home than farm parity...
...taught him the spirited difference. Well-built and athletic, he was a crack miler at Sumner High School, went on to break records at Southern Illinois University. He showed skill as a comic in Army talent contests in the mid '50s, and when he worked as a clerk in the Chicago post office, the foreman told him that if he did not stop cracking jokes about the mail service, he would be sacked. The jokes continued. Gregory was fired, and began work for $10 a night in the Club Esquire, a Negro club on Chicago's South Side...
...Smile. Slowly, the clerk began reading off the roll. All but six members of the House voted-an extraordinary total. One of the few who did not vote was Rayburn himself; he would have voted to break a tie, but it never came to that...
Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
...illustrations: that, mass-pressured enough, people will even be rhinoceroses. What starts in a provincial French town as hysteria over a rhino running loose, ends as everybody's hysteria to become one. Logicians are as eager as businessmen, leftists as logicians; at the end just one fuddled clerk (attractively played by Eli Wallach) remains human. And even he vows not to capitulate only after ruefully condemning his appearance-"A smooth brow looks so ugly, I need one or two horns"-and after regretting that he hadn't joined the others "while there was still time...