Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kick 72 hours after picking-from Ethiopia at the staggering rate of seven tons a day. A cheekful of kat, they say, provides something of a high, makes them care less about heat and hunger, gives a general feeling of happiness, and enhances sexual potency. A local post office clerk, assessing the future with what appears to be typical lack of concern, shifts his chaw to the other cheek and says. "If things go bad, we will simply chew more kat, so we won't care as much. There is not much else...
...issue in a decision last week was the case of Larry G. Hardison, who became a member of the Worldwide Church of God while he was employed as a clerk at a Trans World Airways maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo. The Worldwide Church, founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong, now has some 50,000 U.S. members, who are adjured to follow kosher laws, celebrate Passover (but not Christmas), and strictly observe the Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sunday* TWA tried to accommodate Hardison by changing his schedule, but that eventually brought him into conflict with the seniority system...
There was another important announcement. Hugh Carter, state senator and cousin of the President, came up to lead in prayer and declared that he had just resigned after 31 years as a deacon and 28 years as church clerk at Plains Baptist. The new mission would have his "complete dedication," he said. Like other local families, the Carter clan is divided over what to do. So far the other Carters are sticking with the family church, and President Carter, who has officially transferred to a Washington church, is expected to attend Plains Baptist when he is in town...
...School, but he is also well known as a great constitutional scholar who laid down many of the principles of constitutional study and who is wellversed in American constitutional history. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he came to teach at Harvard in 1939, after serving as law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and working in the Solicitor General's office during the 1930s...
...upholsterer or an undertaker. Writing, he said, was just a job like any other, and putting words on paper to make stories was no different from stitching leather to make shoes. His real career, he maintained, was in the post office, where he worked for 33 years, rising from clerk to executive. (It was Trollope who introduced the street-corner mailbox.) Indeed, his failure finally to become the second in command, the highest post he could hope to achieve, was more galling to him than the barbs of all the literary critics in London...