Word: menials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing menial work until 3 a.m. but then [the next] morning you'll be in a meeting with...
...once pawned an overcoat to buy a ticket for a match. But Deng had landed in a France mired in a deep postwar recession, with few opportunities for a student to support himself with part-time work. He spent most of the next five years working at various menial jobs: arms-factory worker, waiter, train conductor and rubber-overshoe assembler...
...legion of those who fall through the cracks in American life, never to emerge again. Brought up from age eight in the miseries of Catholic boys' homes (and later in an asylum for feebleminded children, from which he managed to escape at 16), he supported himself for decades doing menial work in several Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth...
...soon became apparent, however, that the bacterial approach wouldn't work, and the project was terminated. Taborsky's supervisor, Professor Robert Carnahan, assigned him to menial jobs in the lab and, because the Florida Progress grant had terminated, began paying him from other budgets...
...unusual range of subjects, focused, funny and 20 or 30 I.Q. points brighter than the tabloids think he is. This night some months ago, we met to discuss work that Kennedy had been doing for years, without publicity: helping New York City health-care workers who do the most menial work get more education and thereby build careers in the field...