Word: clerking
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Besides himself, the council chamber contained but a handful of spectators, two reporters, city clerk Joseph Connarton and temporary chairman Thomas W. Danehy "This has never happened in my 34 years on the city council," Vellucci complained to his cable television audience...
Undaunted, I proceeded through the store. I was immediately stopped by an overanxious clerk who forced me to check my bag. Again, I was not unaccustomed to such behavior. Rather, I was used to trading in my bag for a token receipt with the jack-of-hearts...
...clerk did not give me a playing card. For my receipt, he gave me an object which was not only impossible to describe, but also so large and heavy that I had to drag it around by my foot as I traipsed through the store. This was behavior I had only seen at gas stations where they give you a men's room key attached to a spare tire to prevent you from absconding with...
...account produced dissent from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...
...minimum wage of $3.35 an hour, earned by nearly 3.5 million American workers, has stayed the same for the past six years. A messenger, clerk or fast-food worker who works full time at that rate makes $6,968 a year, which is 23% below the poverty level for a family of three...