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Word: deliveryman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police learned that in mid-April a young man had opened a savings account in the bank in the name of John Kertz. A week later a deliveryman dropped the crate off, requesting that it "be held for Mr. Kertz." The box was labeled POMPALIOUM'S ANTIQUE, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. and marked FRAGILE. Guards moved the heavy box on a dolly into the storeroom, unaware that it contained not antiques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crate Idea for a Caper | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...sixth day of deliberations, a Saturday, the members of the jury began getting irritable. The air conditioning was broken in the stifling jury room, and the only smoker in the group started chainsmoking. "We thought about banning him," said Juror Marty Garisek, 33, a bakery deliveryman. That evening, Judge James Turner permitted them their one recreational outing from the Santa Ana Holiday Inn, where they were sequestered under close watch: they went to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Ordeal off a Divided Jury | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

From the beginning, investigators have focused most of their suspicions on Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Missing Widow | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Sexually Irresponsible. The plot is thin. A young man named Louie (Zane Lasky) has impregnated five women, sired nine children by them and cast their support on the bowed back of the U.S. taxpayer. A black deliveryman, Lewis (Cleavon Little), is mistaken for this paragon of sexual irresponsibility, and his favors are courted by a family whose minds and hearts consist of liberal mush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dipsy Doodle | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...York dentist is invariably asked by delivery men for the "madam." She's not at home? How about "the man of the house"? The "gardener" says, "Wait a minute," goes through the back door and emerges at the front, getting a little of his own back at the deliveryman's discomfiture. A black woman lawyer in a federal agency was eating lunch in a suburban restaurant when a « hite matron approached her and asked if she was interested in babysitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Daily Irritations | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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