Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then it moved on?still searching. Yet Nasser came closer to filling the role than any other man since the 12th century warrior Saladin or perhaps the powerful 9th century Caliph of Baghdad Harun al-Rashid. A burly, broad-shouldered army officer, son of a lower-middle-class postal clerk, Nasser overturned a rotting monarchy 18 years ago and brought visions of prosperity to his own country and hope for new unity to a diffuse and frustrated Arab world. At the time of his stunningly unexpected death last week at 52, his original visions had long since been altered...
...zealous Ma. At 17, she married a young Holy Roller who hustled her off to China as a missionary and quickly died there. A few months later, Aimee turned up in the U.S. with a weeks-old daughter in tow. She floundered around the Pentecostal circuit till a grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small son on the farm in Ontario and ran away to preach...
...clerk said "it is doubtful that he could avail himself of the privilege of voting on an absentee ballot" while in jail...
Reporters examining Boston voter registration records Thursday night discover that William Gilday, another suspect in the robbery, registered to vote at a street corner registration booth less than two hours after the Sept. 22 hold-up. "Gilday talked to the other clerk about the charms of Rye Beach," one of the registrars said. Rye Beach was the first stop on Gilday's wild chase through Massachusetts and New Hampshire the week before...
Mailer in middle age continued to carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished...