Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aunt's tumble-down boardinghouse in the black section of Quarrytown, Ga. It is, in effect, a nursing home; the boarders are all geriatrics cases. Earl's best friends are Em Jo-john, a giant, anarchic Indian who works occasionally as handyman, and Tio, a black grocery clerk with the practical native genius of Ben Franklin...
...been reading the Globe want-ad section assiduously for three months after returning to Boston in September from California with no results. Had I wanted to be a taxi driver, clerk-typist, or management trainee with Jack-In-The-Box I would have been in fat city, but since I was looking for something a bit more meaningful I was getting nowhere. One day I saw an ad that sounded appealing: EARN UP TO $160 A WEEK (BASED ON PRODUCTIVITY), it said, directing its cleverly worded pitch to those between school, out of school, and between the ages...
...before the world's most forgotten court since 1929, and at first there was some predictable confusion. Although the trial was supposed to be public, most of the reporters who were able to find the obscure tribunal behind St. Peter's Basilica were turned away before the clerk could cry, "In the name of the Holy Spirit and the reigning Pontiff Paul VI!" When defense lawyers protested that their clients' rights had been violated because they had been interrogated without counsel, the court's three majestically robed and tasseled judges first denied the motions, saying...
...suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys-he, a 42-year-old printer's clerk and she, a 33-year-old tax officer-were not particularly well equipped. Before Auralyn sank, they salvaged 33 cans of food, ranging from steak-and-kidney-pie filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins...
...Angeles, the S.L.A.-so coolly professional on their own turf-began to make amateurish errors. The day before the Shootout, a couple believed to be William and Emily Harris, both suspected S.L.A. members, bought $31.50 worth of heavy outdoor clothing at a sporting-goods store. As they left, a clerk noticed that the man had stuffed a pair of 490 socks up his sleeve. He followed the pilferer outside, where the two began to struggle. Suddenly, a woman sitting in a Volkswagen van across the street sprayed the store with machine-gun fire...