Word: marshaller
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Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle. He is the field marshal for the downtrodden, having assembled 185 organizations into a budget coalition to contend with Ronald Reagan, who does not smoke but who happens to wear a dinner jacket just as often and rides in a chauffeured Cadillac limousine...
...their time doing sit-ups and leg lifts, and when the jury announced convictions on all counts, they took a break from a card game to laugh and clap. In a similar room sat the four women, reading, napping or just listening in. After each witness had finished, marshals asked the two groups if they wished to cross-examine. The responses invariably ranged from silence to "no" and were walkie-talkied back to another marshal at the courthouse...
...Invented during the Sun King's reign by the Marshal Duplessis Praslin's chef, pralines today are a specialty sweetmeat of Louisiana, the state named for Louis...
...Precisely," Marshal Yeh replied...
...Engels," Marshal Yeh said with a worried, excessively polite look in his eyes...