Word: clerking
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...Secret. In New London, Conn., a woman shopper unwittingly uttered the code word "Uranium," was handed butter by a furtive grocery clerk, was too flabbergasted to accept...
...bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
Paul Julius Reuter, a German bank clerk, started his business 97 years ago in a pigeon loft at Aix-la-Chapelle, soon expanded into a ubiquitous emissary of the Victorian empire...
...dreary hours of sea and nothingness the village on the County Clare coast looked like a picture post card. The heart of young (22), romantic Dick Bergman, flying home to Holland from America, was filled with a deep yearning for Kilkee. Bergman soulfully wrote to Kilkee's town clerk to find him a Kilkee wife...
...response was heartwarming, largely because Eire's women often weary of waiting for Eire's frugal swains to propose.* Sixty colleens offered themselves as Bergman brides. To choose among them was more than the town clerk dared. So on Feb. 14 the Kilkee town commissioners will put all the names in a hat. The lucky girl will get first chance at writing to the sighing Dutchman...