Word: minturn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worker must prove to a would-be employer that he or she has a right to work in the U.S. "That's going to be a startling revelation to American citizens," says Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, an author of the act. It proved an unpleasant revelation for Courtney Minturn. She held top security clearance as a federal employee in Washington, and then moved to New Mexico with her new husband Charles Gomez. Earlier this spring, when Courtney Gomez applied for a new job with the Government through a temporary agency, she was told the agency would not send...
...seductive pathology, much of which came from her bloodlines. A bizarre brood, the Sedgwicks. Their money was so "old" it just seemed to grow wild, like weeds on a lawn, or like the manic-depressive strain that led to suicide for several members of the clan. Uncle Minturn, who kept watch over the Sedgwick gravesite in Stockbridge, Mass., insisted on cheap pine coffins for the family and would lie inside them to test their fit. Edie's father Francis, a golden boy at Harvard in the 1920s who turned to sculpting and then brought his wife and children...