Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third-floor offices at Calle Atocha 55 in downtown Madrid, eight young lawyers employed by the Communist-dominated labor-federation comisiones obreras (workers' commissions) were still in their offices when the pair burst through the door. Brandishing automatic weapons apparently equipped with silencers, they herded a male receptionist and the lawyers, one of them a woman, into a semicircle and ordered them to hold their hands in the air. One of the team of killers ripped out telephone lines, while the other demanded the whereabouts of a union official who was not there. Then, without further speech...
Nemetz took five semesters off, traveling in France and Alaska, and working as a rental agent, a hair salon receptionist and a busboy at a Boston seafood restaurant...
...clinic plans to hire full-time nurse practitioners and a receptionist...
Gray, who kept a 55-ft. yacht on the Potomac and was known for the comely women who partied on it, recalls the sequence differently. He claims she called him and was "kind of crying," pleading for work. He made her his receptionist. Says he: "She made all my appointments and typed letters into the thousands." But she typed so slowly, she insists, that other secretaries had to finish her letters. "I could never learn the keyboard," she says. To Gray, Liz was "an exhibitionist. She'd call up at midnight and say she was going to kill herself...
Katherine Fanning's Anchorage Daily News has a circulation of 15,500, a staff of 20 (including the receptionist) and an editor-publisher who, until her husband died in 1971 and left her in command, could have rated herself as little more than a cub reporter. The morning daily does not have its own presses, rarely runs more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism...