Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides keeping up advertising accounts he has long been unofficial trainer, coach and father confessor to the hard-working team of freshman "heelers" who compete every year for the two dozen coveted positions on the News board. He has also seen many a promising but needy heeler drop out because he couldn't hold a part-time job and still work the 10 to 12 hours a day that heeling calls...
...Busta handled his campaign with the skill of an old ward-heeler. Convinced that urban Kingston with its higher percentage of literates would go against him, he stayed away from the capital and worked the rural areas...