Word: jobbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired and frustrated at his hopeless America as he watched Rick Burleson strike out. The bottom of the ninth was coming up after another beer commercial, and the commercial was so boring (another "Schlitz Light" jobber -- only this time they decided to change the Coburn character a little, mellow him out; they took all of the "tough" out of him) that Bobby just nodded out in front of the tube, his hand falling limp, spilling beer all over the synthetic carpet...
Frank Kilduff, a buyer for a Chelsea, Mass., building-materials jobber, has been "on allocation," as he puts it, from Certain-Teed since May. Now he must place orders by mail instead of telephone; Certain-Teed then calls to ask where Ki] duffs allowed two weekly truckload should be sent. Complains William Rich owner of a Wellesley, Mass., insulation-installing firm: "I'm backed up four months Since July I have been getting 300 to 400 bags of fiber glass a month, and I need a minimum...
...Brooklyn native, Brownmiller, now 40 and single, attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan and to begin a career as a kind of intellectual odd-jobber: as a Newsweek researcher, a civil rights worker in Mississippi, a TV reporter in Philadelphia and a staff writer for the Village Voice. In the late '60s she joined one of the first feminist groups in New York and, says Brownmiller, "all of a sudden I knew I was home...
ffrench-Beytagh, a Shanghai-born former hobo and odd jobber with a long-time reputation as a "fighting parson" in Rhodesia and South Africa, is free on $14,000 bail pending an appeal. Because, at 59, he is suffering from a weak heart and hypertension, he figures that if the appeal fails, "I won't come out alive, you know." Thus he is using his time to say farewell to friends...