Word: clerking
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...search for deep snow. After shuttling 275 miles by bus and auto, Slaattvik, Hasu and 67 others took off at Rumford in a biting wind. Although nine nations were represented, it was strictly a Scandinavian show. First place went to a skinny, 145-Ib. Swedish store clerk named Karl-Erik Aaström. He poled through the drifts in 1 hr. 6 min. 16 sec. to become the world's individual 18-kilometer champion...
...vice chief chamberlain directly to the bridegroom-elect. "Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress," hissed the imperial emissary, bowing low, "would like to have their daughter married to Honorable Takatsukasa. What are his feelings on the subject?" "I accept," said 26-year-old Toshimichi Takatsukasa, a $20-a-month clerk in the Traffic Museum, bowing equally...
Three years after Julius' death in 1936, new President William E. Schmid, a Garfinckel veteran who had begun his business career as a clerk in a packing house, began making changes. He launched ad campaigns, even wriggled into television with a demonstration by a model of a two-way stretch girdle. Sales have grown until last year Garfinckel's gross was $21.6 million...
...court clerk spoke in the courtroom, hush: "Madam Foreman, have you and the members of the jury agreed on a verdict...
...looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...