Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which had been passed down by many generations of slaves, was not elaborate. It was really very simple. But it was the story around which whole generations coalesced. It kept us together. It made us proud of who we were and from where we had come." Haley asked a clerk in the microfilm room for the 1870 census records of Alamance County, N.C., where his forebears had lived. As he recalls the day, "It became sort of a mystical experience, turning those reels of film." But after a couple of eye-straining hours, he got up to leave...
...young clerk notes: "Engaged at the office all day on a sonnet - surreptitiously." Two years later he writes his future wife: "It is such an odd thing that bright boys should be expect ed to be successful men . . . Brightness disillusions." So the bright boy becomes the plodder, then the secret craftsman who will not publish his first book of po etry until the age of 44. The material world gains in importance and the rare leisure hours are steeped in philosophy. The demise of Stevens' mother is a pre sentiment of Sunday Morning. "Death is the mother of beauty...
...M.P.s assemble, they appear to be pillars of rectitude. Their clerk is another matter. Maddie Gotobed (Cecilia Hart) has the body of a Botticelli. She is slow at speed writing but has fast friends in high places. Some are right here in the committee chamber. As Maddie's blue scanties emerge from the M.P.s' briefcases at inauspicious moments and whip through the air like naval pennants, it is clear that whatever the Prime Minister's electoral problems may be, Maddie has carried the House...
...good time to take a look at an outsider and a dark horse." Though he arrived late one night at the Ramada Inn where Carter was staying, Cloud decided to touch base with Jody Powell, the candidate's press secretary. He called a number obtained from the room clerk. A sleepy voice answered in a soft Southern accent. "Mr. Powell?" Cloud asked. "No," the still groggy voice replied. "This is Jimmy...
...fetching the firewood for the battalion kitchen. But when an antiquated military plane makes a forced landing in nearby Krasnoye, Chonkin is ordered there as a sentry. Before the first day ends, he has made himself at home in the village. He moves in with Nyura Belyashova, a postal clerk, shares her bed, cleans her house and tends her garden. He also moves the plane into the garden so as not to be derelict in his duty...