Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the clerk finished droning his way through the roll, the tally stood at 46 nays, 42 ayes. Dick Nixon swung behind the chair of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, his top Senate ally in the medical-care battle, and smilingly patted him on the shoulder. Jack Kennedy stood up and stalked out of the chamber...
Oftentimes the family was hard-pinched for money, and Mother Carrie frequently supplemented their income as a part-time waitress in the Coburn Hotel, as a clerk at the Green Brothers' 5 and 10? store or a pieceworker in a local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags...
...people of Walsenburg saw the light. Last November they elected six of the seven women candidates-three to the top city jobs of mayor, city clerk, treasurer, and three others to the eight-member city council (where the women, though outnumbered 5 to 3 by men, usually manage to get their way because two of the men support their reforms). Taking office in January, City Clerk Doris Caine, 26, widowed mother of two children, found a disorder that shocked her womanly eyes: sheets were missing from city ledgers, texts of some city ordinances were gone, and some city financial transactions...
...post office clerk with a limited education. Lumumba was sending off some fairly polished and legalistic notes. Their phraseology led foreign diplomats to wonder who was writing his stuff. The answer seemed to be that Lu mumba is now surrounded by a growing coterie of Red-lining advisers. Besides the Congo's latter-day Madame de Stael. handsome Leftist Andree Blouin, who has volunteered her way into the most intimate Congo affairs (TIME, Aug. 15). Lumumba relies heavily on a Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
...only the slightest break to beat him to the gold medals. Norton is the favorite because of his consistency under pressure and a smooth, driving stride that picks up speed as the race goes on. The long shot: West Germany's Armin Hary, 23, a Frankfurt department store clerk, who gets off the mark fast, ran the 100 meters in a world record time of 10 sec. Hary suffers from brittle nerves, and in preparation for the stress of Rome has been taking long walks in the country. In the end, Norton's chief threats will probably...