Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter had the effect of extending a form of incarceration that, for now, has been more confining for the jurors than the defendants. The jurors were busy Christmas shopping last week-accompanied by U.S. deputy marshals, who went along to make certain that a store clerk did not offer a stray remark about the trial. The jurors have been staying in Washington's unpretentious Midtown Motor Inn since their swearing-in Oct. 11, leading peculiarly insulated lives as temporary wards of the Government...
Gutted Mosque. "In an anteroom of the old government house, Mohammed Mahmoud and his wife Ayesha, a couple in their 60s, sit quietly while a clerk checks their documents to be sure they are eligible to come back home. The yellow, tattered papers prove that until five years before, they had lived on a little farm just outside Suez. The clerk makes out a form giving Mahmoud permission to return to his farm, and he 'signs' it with a seal engraved on a ring...
...revised Boris at the turn of the century in the conviction that while Mussorgsky's writing had undeniable boldness, originality and even beauty, it was also rough of harmony, incoherent of style and in general not the work of a professional. In truth, Mussorgsky, a civil service clerk, had little formal training but did possess, as Schippers puts it, "an incredible soul, obviously. It had to come out." Rimsky's rich, opulent revision swept the operatic world, with the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin making the title role practically his own. It was not surprising that many came...
...Cambridge city clerk last night introduced a proposal to award city councilors their second pay raise in the last 22 years at the Cambridge City Council meeting...
...increase, proposed by clerk Paul Haley, would raise the councilors' current salaries of $6500 to $10,000. The council will vote on the proposal at its meeting December...