Word: ripperton
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...WALTER RIPPERTON had to admit that, despite everything, he felt unemployed. Laid off in October from his job as a steelworker, he hadn't been back to work since. Instead, he padded around the house in his bathrobe and a pair of worn argyle socks each day, getting dressed on Thursdays to pick up his unemployment check. He watched people winning thousands of dollars on "The $10,000 Pyramid" and "Hollywood Squares," rearranged the living room furniture with his wife a few times, and generally would have been more relaxed than he ever imagined he could be, had he known...
...know than he--regarded him with a new air of respect. When he would scrape together enough pennies for a quick visit to his local tavern, he would walk in and hear people whispering quietly almost reverentially, about how the United States needed more people like Walter Ripperton to pull itself out of the recession...
...Dear Mr. Ripperton...