Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robbed. Now I'm too afraid of humanity." The voters have various explanations for the crime rise. "Moral standards are very low," says Yvonne Morris, wife of a blue-collar worker in Decatur, Ga. "There's too much discontent," argues Rhoda Friedberg, a New York City store clerk. "It's a home problem-there is not enough parental supervision," counters Nell B. Coakley of Louisville, Ky. Joan Lefkowitz of Philadelphia sees other factors: "The courts are lax. They allow criminals to walk the streets. Also, drugs are too available...
...reach their jobs by any means possible. Monumental traffic jams stretched for miles. Government-owned trains still ran, but only irregularly, and sometimes arrived at their destination with their windows cracked from passenger pressure. In the crush, commuters lost buttons, clothes, even shoes. One bank clerk reported that "I rode all the way in without my feet once touching the floor...
...reader confidently pronounces himself in Kafka country and prepares to stalk long antiseptic corridors in search of that unnamed chief clerk known to Kafka as God. But Sloan's complexity makes Kafka seem elementary stuff. Mixing diaries, psychiatrists' reports, and computer printouts, Sloan systematically undermines the original account of Comrade V. by offering alternative versions...
Thirty-four students now reside in the Sheraton-Commander Hotel on Garden St. and two more are living in the Treadway Inn on Mt. Auburn St. for the duration of the building occupation. The Commander is now booked to capacity a hotel clerk said last night...
Through intermediaries, Jubin persuaded the police commissioner of the Palais to supply him and the Segards with a getaway car. They took along three hostages: the judge, a clerk and a secretary. With Jubin at the wheel, a black Renault sped off into the night, followed by two police cars and several autos filled with reporters. Unable to shake his pursuers on a wild ride through Paris, Jubin finally brought the car to a screeching halt, jumped out and yelled: "If you don't stop following me, I'll shoot a hostage." The police and the newsmen turned...