Word: janitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell University's West Sibley Hall had a jewel of a janitor-for a couple of hours, anyway, as Historian Clinton Rossiter, 49, scrabbled around with bucket and scrub brush. Rossiter doesn't think the hired help who are supposed to clean up the 100-year-old home of the government and history departments have been paying attention to his office. "The janitors have no time to clean up here," Rossiter announced, as he staged a protest "scrub-in" with six of his students and three other professors. "They're too busy watering the potted palms over...
There exists a second ending to the Story of F in which a wandering forest ranger saves the reluctant F from her lover only to watch her be abused by bears. Another version of the beginning has a janitor burn the manuscript and use the ashes for an eggtimer...
...would continue the practice of bargaining for "units." Nonetheless, many BGMA members, who trace the founding of their union to a desire to preserve trade identity, were wary. Even if the unit bargaining were continued, they feared that Sullivan would do what he did at Radcliffe: bring the janitors, maids, porters and unskilled help under the same union roof with the craftsmen. For some this would mean just too much chance for error. "I don't want anyone to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA member said. Another large trade union was apparently rejected by the BGMA officers...
...insular firebird (meaning the sun) gives up the day, and is tucked into a corner. Order, like a giant janitor, shuttles about naming and replacing the various humanities. I look at you, you look at me -- We wave again (the same), our hands like swollen flags falling, words Marooned in the brain...
...bankruptcy before, Chicago Taxi Driver Lawrence Young persuaded the SBA to lend him $19,500 to launch a Chicken Delight carry-out shop. It subsequently foundered to the extent that the agency lost $14,000 even after auctioning the fixtures for $5,000. Young, now working as a janitor, blames his misfortune partly on his failure to attend the SBA's free courses on how to run a business...