Word: hourlies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Applicants are told the workweek is 40 hours, 2 to 10 p.m. weekdays. But, as one fellow salesman told me, "After they get you through training and you learn all the shit, they tell you it starts at 12:30" -and the usual hour for ending the work day is midnight. About six hours of required work each Saturday makes the total normal workweek about 65 hours...
Pomerance was detained and questioned for over two-and-a-half hours by Canadian border officials before being asked to post bond. After presenting the money on Thursday, he was questioned for another hour before being allowed to attend his speaking engagement at Brock University, located in St. Catherines, On-taro...
...nearly automatic. You're ready for Friday dinner, the date is due in an hour, and some clown comes busting through the door with his kick-ass boots. He says he's a friend of your roommate, throws his duffel ("You don't mind if I toss my duffel up here") on the desk, then pukes...
...along comes a blonde named Elizabeth (Jean Seberg). There isn't enough of Elizabeth to go around, so she shacks up with both partners. They make a beautiful triple until No Name is visited by some outsiders carrying a plague of respectability. Elizabeth succumbs, and only an hour and a half after the audience anticipates it, she settles down with one of her husbands. The other follows his "wand'rin' star" to the next gold strike...
...IMMORTALS OF THE MOUNTAIN by C. Virgil Gheorghiu. 186 pages. Henry Regnery. $5.95. This novel about Rumanian peasants mistreated by landholders is far below The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the author's post-World War II story of concentration camps...