Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beauty culture" from a Mississippi high school, enrolled "because I'm tired of working in the five-and-dime. Regardless of color, we poor people want to get out of our rut and help others around us start moving." Said Nancy Vincenty, who had planned on being a clerk-typist before she heard of open admissions: "If you want to go to college and don't think you'll ever be able to, and suddenly you get the chance, you really work extra hard to stay there...
When a public school clerk from the Bronx refused to answer his subcommittee's questions, McCarthy suggested that she apply for a job at Harvard, "a privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists...
Whither a Supreme Court judge goes, so goes his justice-even on a summer vacation. Last week two lawyers and a law clerk hiked six miles up a mountain trail in central Washington to where William O. Douglas was camping. They presented him with a petition requesting a temporary injunction against the Portland police. The iconoclastic judge told them to come back the next day, promising to leave his decision on a tree stump. Two of the petitioners, suffering from blisters and fatigue, failed to make the return trip. The third, locating the petition, found that he had indeed been...
...country where living costs and pay scales are high, workers at the $7,202-a-year G55 level have earned 20% less than their counterparts in private enterprise. "The money I make is so low that I can apply for welfare." says Marvel Paine, a G54 hospital clerk with the Veterans Administration in Tacoma. Many federal workers moonlight; many Washington, D.C., taxi drivers working nights and weekends are Government employees...
...Apple, the way a New Man on the make can use the old steppingstones (Cambridge common room, St. James's club) - all this Snow knows with firsthand certainty. For Snow, after all, is one of those who made it: the son of a shoe-factory clerk who became a Cambridge don and a Parliamentary Secretary. Sir Charles Percy Snow. A baron! Snow's heroes are the deserving successes: the realists. How could it be otherwise? They are the illusionless men who sit in committee around conference tables and work out agreements that satisfy no one but at least...