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Word: clerkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been nearly a year since the Ripper last struck. Nine of his ten previous targets were prostitutes working the red-light districts of such grimy North England industrial towns as Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford. The murder of Josephine Whitaker, an entirely respectable clerk, set off fears that the unknown killer might attack any woman in "a triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire. "The whores in the red-light area of Leeds are so jumpy that some gulp tranquilizers before going out to work," reports TIME Correspondent Art White after a visit to Yorkshire last week. "Some are carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ripper's Return | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...more sympathetic, barely acknowledging his presence when he does the family wash in the basement laundry of the military apartment complex where the Venemas live. Nor is life any easier at the PX; every time Richard goes there he seems to have to explain to yet another puzzled clerk that his wife is the soldier, he the dependent. Grousing does not help: "Nobody listens to me because nobody has to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Army Husband | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Einhorn's lawyer, Arlen Specter, gained a postponement because police charged Einhorn with homicide before the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office ascertained that Helen Maddux, found dead in Einhorn's apartment on March 28, had in fact been murdered, Vincent A. DiGirolamo, second deputy clerk of Quarter Sessions Court, said yesterday...

Author: By Joseph T. Smith, | Title: Einhorn Arrested Improperly; Lawyer Gains Hearing Delay | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

Following Lorenzen's flight, five other secretaries were unmasked as likely East German agents. West German police arrested C.D.U. Secretary Ursula Höfs, 34, in Bonn and Maja Zietlow, 26, a travel agency clerk, in Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, Inge Goliath, 37, a secretary working for C.D.U. Foreign Policy Spokesman Werner Marx, left her office complaining of a stomach-ache-and turned up on the Communist side of the wall. The next day Christel Broszey, 31, the secretary of C.D.U. Deputy Chairman Kurt Biedenkopf, asked to leave work early for a hairdresser's appointment. She never returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Sexy Spies | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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