Word: menial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little time will be wasted during the competition on menial work, and candidates for the program-production board will immediately be given definite assignments, while candidates for the technical board will soon have a chance to learn the intricacies of the "control board...
...three days out of the week and for six weeks the harried "slaves" will carry buckets, do menial jobs, curry favor, and obey the whims of their superiors. When the competition closes November 8, the winner, who will have earned his '45 numerals, will manage the final practices and, along with his assistants, who have survived the contest, take charge of the Yale Freshman game on November...
...keyed murals of La Boca's daily life. Quinquela Martín abhors political propaganda in art, but he painted La Boca's stevedores, not like bedraggled proletarians, but as big-muscled, heroic men. Said he: "These boys are of poor families. Their fathers are doing hard, menial jobs. By making them into such men, these children will, at least for the moment, forget their poverty and be proud of their fathers...
...More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
...double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy training plane, performed such other menial tasks as their sergeant required...