Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs of operating schools. In the paper-mill town of Berlin, Kelly's Pastry Shop now sells more doughnuts (7?) than turnovers (150?, as residents worry about living costs. "It takes two working now for a family to get what it needs," notes Mrs. Laura Allain, a clerk in the shop. "Before, we could always set something aside...
...take a job as a shipping clerk," he remembers sarcastically. "Isn't that great? Some society . . ." He pauses, folding powerful arms in front of his chest. "Bookkeeping is my thing. I'd like to be a C.P.A. some...
Ward said that the subcommittee was most impressed by the experience Cox had as solicitor general of the United States and by his early display of intellectual capability. (Cox served as clerk to Judge Learner Hand upon his graduation from Law school...
Since Women's Liberation introduced "Ms." as a substitute for Miss or Mrs., the prefix (pronounced Miz) has been working its way steadily into the American vocabulary. There is, of course, institutional resistance. In California, for example, Sacramento County Clerk William Durley reports he has had to reject at least 20 voter registration applications because women have insisted on using Ms. instead of giving their marital-status designation as state law requires. Now two bills have been introduced in the state legislature to allow the liberated Ms. designation, or none at all, when women desire to register that...
...thought that County Judge Elijah Campbell, Owsley's chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county planner for $800 a month...