Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn, now living in exile in Zurich, notes that Sholokhov, a former laborer and clerk with scarcely any education, was only 23 years old when he published the first volume in 1928. Yet, Solzhenitsyn points out, "the book reveals the kind of literary power attainable only after many attempts by an experienced and accomplished writer." He also joins many critics in observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies...
...founder and chief is Walter W. Morrison, 29, who began organizing his enterprise in 1969 while still attending the University of Virginia Law School. During the summer he served as a clerk in a 15-man Hartford firm and occasionally came into contact with lawyers from smaller firms. "Their hours," he observed, "are eaten up by running an office and gathering the facts on a case...
Sullivan, who also serves as assistant clerk of courts in Middlesex County, has even avoided the work in the court house. Workers there said recently that Sullivan only drops by occasionally to say hello to friends and to gather election support...
...mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled the occupants of that chamber. "Mr. Speaker, a message from the President of the United States," he announced. In the stillness, a clerk read the anticlimactic title: a presidential report on "Government Services to Rural America...
...Clemente, Calif., townspeople were beginning to realize that their days of fame were about over. A motel clerk, giving directions to a man who had just reserved a room by telephone, said carelessly, "We're easy to find, we're right across the freeway from the Western White House." After a pause he added, "Let me correct that: the former Western White House...