Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Small towns are super if you are a hard-working woman and hope to make as much as $80 a week as a clerk or secretary, if you want to see your children grow up to be uneducated fools, if you like cesspools, if you like to take your own garbage to the dump and if you like to go to the public library and find that all three books have been checked...
After the Civil War young men flocked to the cities, and a porn business grew up to provide for this new market. Shocked by what he saw around him, a New York City clerk, Anthony Comstock, launched a national crusade. The results: stiffer laws, more prosecutions and a firm antiporn stance became the official American posture for nearly a century...
...this your verdict?" the clerk asked each member of the jury, one after another. Back came the answers: "Yes . . . yes . . . yes . . ." As the seven women and five men spoke, the defendant sat erect, pale but composed and dry-eyed, while her lawyers leaned toward her protectively. Last week, after only twelve hours of deliberation, a San Francisco jury ruled that Patricia Campbell Hearst was guilty of armed bank robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony...
...deal with inflation by buying property that is likely to rise in value, such as automobiles and real estate, or stash their money in banks in neighboring Uruguay, where dollar accounts are legal. The average worker has no such sanctuaries. Like many other blue-collar workers, one factory stock clerk named Victor, 56, finds that his hard-won comforts are vanishing fast. Once his family regularly dined on beefsteaks; now, he says, "we don't know what meat looks like. We eat ravioli." His 13,000 peso monthly salary is now worth only about $40. Last year his monthly...
...employed-as an office boy for a real estate firm in Lawrence, Kans., picking up trash, gassing up cars, running other errands. Felber used to be a clerk in a liquor store; before that, in 1974, he got a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Kansas...