Word: clerkship
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After that came a clerkship at A. & P., a fling at sailing in the West Indies and newspapering in Manhattan (the defunct PM), and World War II service with the Coast Guard in the Pacific...
Dean Griswold pointed out that at present the law schools are unable to channel the idealism of the college youths who go on to study law. "The student is caught in the current which says that the real measure of success is a clerkship with a prominent judge followed by an association with a large metropolitan law firm...
...more determinedly a President seeks power, the more he will be likely to bring vigor to his clerkship...
Watching the 43-year-old President's first, fast weeks in office, even John Fitzgerald Kennedy's sharpest critics had to admit that for better or worse he was bringing uncommon vigor to his presidential clerkship. His staff and his Cabinet had long since accepted him as an active boss who would not hesitate to order the toning down of a speech by tough-minded Admiral Arleigh Burke, to personally dress down an aide responsible for a critical news leak...
...predecessors and the provocation of crisis by men beyond his control, he was learning that a President, in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, barely retains the liberty "to be as big a man as he can." But in the vigor he brought to the early days of his clerkship, in the power he applied to the problems at hand, John Kennedy was clearly reaching for stature...