Word: menials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out the need for "experience on a menial level," Day advised graduates in the field to seek employment on a small country newspaper. Journalists who begin as copy boys for city dailies, he added, "are doing it the hard...
...University can hire young Ph.D.'s as tutors, making tutorial their primary obligation. Obviously, these men must also have a dedication to their field, but this can be cultivated as well by making them tutors as through the present system which turns them into a kind of academic menial. Serious teaching can be as efficient in organizing and stmulating many men's thinking in a field as research assistantships...
...ways the saints lived are even more astonishing than the ways they died. Margaret of Hungary was born a princess, but she chose to minister to the sick in ways that Attwater describes as "menial, repulsive, exhausting and insanitary." Her imitation of the lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her. She ate almost nothing, slept hardly at all and died in 1270 at 28. St. Benedict Labre was another dirty saint who spent most of his life tramping from shrine to shrine throughout 18th century Europe, sleeping...
...making the film, Disney not only stuck fairly close to the facts but was even courageous enough to dispense with a love story. About the only women in sight are relegated to such menial jobs as waiting on table. Sturdy Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker trades in his coonskin cap for a felt hat as the federal spy; Jeffrey Hunter is the picture of keen-eyed implacability as the pursuing conductor; and a large group of native Georgians adequately re-create their Civil War ancestors. Since the raid involved a minimum of hand-to-hand fighting, Disney partially supplied the lack...
...issue has slowed the industrialization of the South. The chief reason is that industry is the most successful exponent of desegregation in the South, though Southerners are reluctant to admit it. From the steel mills of Birmingham to the docks of New Orleans, the Negro worker, once relegated to menial jobs and Jim Crow unions, is moving steadily across the color bar into skilled jobs and nonsegregated union locals...