Word: menials
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...sailor's son, Salemme was born in a Boston suburb, went to Manhattan at 18 and made it his own, educating himself at the public library. For a living he tried many menial jobs: he ran elevators, once worked as doorkeeper at the Guggenheim Museum. He long hesitated between painting and writing, failed to paint a picture that struck him as "a personal statement" until he was 32. In the eleven years of his life that remained, Salemme sold pictures to Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern museums. He was also commissioned to paint murals for posh Manhattan...
...typists, and mechanics generally fall into this category. For the most part, these men "have it made," with frequent passes and privileges, such as having cars on post, but they often receive very little training. They generally spend their remaining four months of training time taking care of the menial tasks wherever they were assigned. Officers and enlisted men, alike, hesitated to spend much time teaching these men anything when they knew they would be gone as soon as they learned enough to become valuable to a unit...
Freshmen who compete for the experience alone always do the most menial tasks available in each sport. The average Yardling may not get along with older players with whom he often comes in contact. Because he must be on the job before, during, and after every practice, a manager works more time than the players...
...twelve-year-old war orphan who had managed to survive the Japanese occupation of his native Timor and found work as a menial in the kitchen of the Kupang airport. Nobody wanted...
...leading lady author of Red China, 51-year-old Ting Ling, last week was hard at work on a new job: scrubbing floors at the Peking headquarters of the Writers' Union. She was not alone. Many "distinguished professors," crowed Radio Peking, are now performing the same menial tasks as Ting Ling, in punishment for such crimes as "rightist activities, individualism and anti-party feeling...