Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glumly. Cohn returned to his Manhattan law practice, promised to do spare-time work for McCarthy's cause, and (at 27) dashed off his memoirs for the Hearst papers. McCarthy insisted that he would never be able to hire another counsel like Cohn. No one disputed him on that...
...Americans learned for the first time how to repair radios, engines and dozens of other machines. Housewives who had been punch-press operators, welders and electronics technicians found that it was no trick to fix a leaky faucet or paper a room, especially as it was hard to hire anyone to do it. Doing it herself was also less expensive, since the wages of carpenters and plumbers had jumped far higher than those of many other workers. Says one do-it-yourselfer: "A $1.25-an-hour bookkeeper is not going to pay a $3.50-an-hour carpenter very long...
Some of the problems take hours or days, and the client is charged (at $100 an hour) by how long he ties up the computer. If he lacks mathematicians, he may bring his problem to the center, where he can hire consultants to translate it into computer language...
...Painter Paul Cézanne always returned to his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He seemed to thrive best in the sunny, sleepy atmosphere of Provence, with its sloping vineyards bathed in Mediterranean light and its vistas of baked mountains seen though cool green pines. He liked to hire a carriage and ride out to a spot on the road south from Aix where the view of Mount Sainte-Victoire especially appealed to him. There, sitting beneath a pine tree, Cézanne painted the swirling, dramatic picture above, catching on canvas the marvelous interplay of lights and shadows...
When a citizens' committee asked him to head the "Hire the Handicapped Week" for Houston in 1949, Anderson accepted, but only on condition that hiring the handicapped be a year-round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours...