Word: errand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder that by this time (he was 16) Rothstein had won the respect and almost the affection of Tammany Hall's East Side boss, "Big Tim" Sullivan. Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was later to express so clearly: "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best...
...flunky or errand boy, but as a man who can be trusted to keep Virginia the way Harry Byrd wants to keep it, Lindsay Almond was in full charge of the explosive political program of using legal stratagems to keep Negro children out of white schools...
...night last week strode 15 masked men in strict military order. A year ago, the sight of such gunmen meant that some one had been singled out for death as a collaborator with the British. But this time the EOKA men proved to be bound on a singularly innocent errand. Invading the village coffee shop, they ordered its customers to face the wall, then searched their pockets for British cigarettes...
Applicant McNair had an impressive career behind him. After starting out as an errand boy, he was, when he retired in 1955, general and political secretary of the Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced...
...minutes until a quorum is gathered, and discuss lunches with the Dean, the formation of the Motorscooter Club, and whether or not a certain member should be allowed to change his vote. Frequently, Council members themselves realize that they have little purpose, and ask agonizingly, "are we just the errand boys of Dean Watson...