Word: handler
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...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, who revealed the research at the Senate hearings, called the achievement "a scientific triumph of the first order." Indeed...
...water tests are a skillful blend of obedience training and instinct gauging. The first simply requires the dog to go into the water and return to shore on command from a handler. "It looks so easy," said Breeder-Handler Cardel Verbruggen, "but it's actually an acid test. The dog has to be willing to swim to go in, and not every dog-even some Newfs, unfortunately-is eager for the water. And once he's in, he can't just swim around for the fun of it and still be a rescue...
...Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those other escapees. It teaches you the tricks of the mountain, like traveling at night and how to see in the mountains in the dark while going through a rough thicket." As a handler of bloodhounds, Chapman is known to his fellow guards as a "dog boy"; to the inmates, he is a feared "sniffer...
...Food and Drug Administration was about to outlaw saccharin. What was remarkable was that the disclosure came almost two months before the FDA acted and that it was made in Food Industry Newsletter, a four-page, biweekly newsletter that is written, folded, addressed and mailed by Phyllis and Julian Handler from their Manhattan apartment...