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Word: garbageman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blocks and helped them build a community center. Steve Trott, 21, tall, handsome, president of the fraternity (a local one called EQV), shoots golf in the low 705. Fluent in French and Spanish, he is the son of an executive in the overseas division of Procter & Gamble. A Mexican garbageman taught him how to play the guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Reality in Academia | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

Gaslights! The first thing James Ryan wanted to be was a garbageman, the second thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The River Bishop | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

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