Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milwaukee supermarket, an aged shopper who found that her grocery bill totaled 180 more than the cash in her purse asked the check-out clerk to remove a can of cat food from her order. The clerk offered to pay for it because "I wouldn't want your cat to go hungry." The woman replied, with a weak smile: "I'm the cat." Her plight is shared by many of the elderly who live on fixed incomes. Says Robert Forest, editor of the Senior Citizens Sentinel: "Food prices are murdering the aged. The only two places they...
Abandonment. Only ten minutes after the decision was released, Deputy Solicitor General Daniel Friedman entered the court and handed the clerk the Government's request for a new stay order. Chief Justice Warren Burger suggested that Justice Marshall, who supervises the Second Circuit, should handle the matter, and began sounding out other members of the High Court on the issue. Marshall reached the court by 11 a.m. Some four hours later, after conferring by telephone with other Justices, Marshall issued an order that permitted the bombing to continue. In effect, the Justices informally voted 8-1 to bring...
...What is the point of "getting away" if we must carry all of our paraphernalia with us to insulate ourselves from a new environment [July 2]? Like the American tour ists who asked the hotel clerk whether they were in the Paris or the Madrid Hilton, campers may soon be asking each other if this is Nettles Island or Camperland...
...many ways, C. Arnholt Smith seemed to personify the American Dream. A high school dropout and former grocery clerk, he rose to the ownership of a major league baseball team (the San Diego Padres) and became head of a financial empire that included one of California's largest banks and a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with interests that ranged from hotels, real estate and insurance to tuna-fishing fleets, canneries and a commuter airline. He became the chum of a President, so close to Richard Nixon that the two watched the 1968 election returns together on television...
education magazine, in the Christian Century. Last year the U.P.C. rejected the church union plan, which it had helped to write, and the merger has been postponed indefinitely. A theologically conservative student movement is surfacing at prestigious Princeton Seminary. Last week Blake's successor as Stated Clerk (chief executive), Kansas Lawyer William...