Word: mender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said...
...Pentagon, Whitehair has acted like a smalltime politician in an oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...