Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indictments were processed routinely. Moments after they were handed up, the documents went to the office of Court Clerk Elbert Wagner for assignment to a judge. There, an assistant stamped them with a file number, then moved to a row of cubbyholes and drew a sealed block of cards from the one marked CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. The cards, arranged face down, each bore the name of one of the district's ten active judges. After freeing the top card with a letter opener, the clerk found before him the name of the trial judge whom he had just selected...
...some excitement over the town's accounts, which have been in disarray since 1967, when the selectmen did not bother to submit a financial report. "I wish to ask the town treasurer," one citizen snapped, "why there are so many discrepancies in her accounting." Mabel Smith, town clerk and treasurer, a sturdy, pugnacious widow who between meetings virtually runs Mount Vernon, crustily invited any doubters to check the receipts at the bank. One of Mrs. Smith's responsibilities is to record the town's deaths, births and marriages. These days, however, she publicly reports only the deaths...
...life, he has little to comfort him but a purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear in the twelfth century...
...government offices and shops throughout the capital of Phnom-Penh. While the deposed chief of state was gone, however, it was clear that he was not forgotten. In a Phnom-Penh hotel, a visitor asked for one of the Sihanouk portraits as a souvenir. "Oh no," replied a clerk. "We are saving it. Nothing is sure. We may have to put it back...
...that would provide efficient transit for these people, educate their children effectively, or even haul away their garbage. The sheer growth in the numbers of people has led to many of today's inefficiencies ?traffic-jammed streets, uncollected trash, interminable waits for taxis, lunch tables or a sales clerk's attention...