Word: clerking
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...kind of a perfectionist mother, and I demanded a lot of him. I think I was responsible for a lot of alienation. I brought some of that to the part." Indeed, only in the last few years did Meeker, who worked as a bit-part actor and mail-room clerk at CBS television studios, become close to his mother. Said she: "I have a new friend...
...drama swirl the premonitory themes of drug addiction and Eastern religion, played out by a varied cast of supporting characters (and suspects): the cheerful clergyman Crisparkle; Mr. Grewgious, one of the very few likable lawyers in the Dickens canon; the admirable young naval officer, Lieutenant Tartar; the sulky clerk Bazzard; and the bullying philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder. All are the products of a unique and fevered imagination; none can possibly be reproduced. Or can they...
...perhaps because of its shushing appeal for moderation. Since then, however, the government has allowed some freer discussion in the press and on television as well as radio broadcasts of church services, an encouraging turn that may prove temporary. "Don't go yet," a Polish airlines clerk said to the Times's John Vinocur as he bought a ticket to leave Gdansk. "It's good if somebody's watching...
...generation because we were getting $75 a month from Uncle Sam. If things ever got rough you could always get a job with the Marshall Plan, "which started up so quickly and needed so many workers that you could get a job as an office boy or a mailroom clerk and two weeks later be in charge of the coal and steel industries for the Benelux countries...
...particularly unpleasant feature of life is what the Chinese call qiang xing da pei, or forced distribution. It means simply that if one wants to buy a particular "item in a store, the clerk, who is eager for a productivity bonus, may insist on the purchase of an additional, slower-moving item as well...