Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then Joe stomped in from the corridor, stuffed a briefcase, said "Come on" to a waiting reporter and hurried out. Behind them came a job seeker from Wisconsin, carrying the briefcase...
...figured out the best way to drive to his house, and he had to circle a block before he found the alley to the back door. He stumbled up the four brick steps, found a key, entered, groped for a light switch. In the dark, the Wisconsin job seeker banged into the door...
Meanwhile, the job seeker from Wisconsin knew what to do. Digging into the groceries, he started to get dinner. He found some frozen pork chops, which he broiled (he is not looking for a cook's job), a fine Maryland ham, a Wisconsin cheese, some bourbon, some seltzer...
...skull of Mt. Carmel Man, the only Paleolithic man on exhibit in the United States, sits staring moodily at his bones in case across the hall. Not far away stands the Museum's ample collection of shrunken and mummified human beads, calculated to surprise even the most hardened curiosity-seeker...
This is the first Republican Christmas in twenty years. Does that mean it will be a Christmas of hard work, of spoils to the rugged individualist and nothing for the security-seeker? Christmas has traditionally been a season for the extension of largesse to the grasshopper who didn't store up the summer crops as well as the ant who did, a season of good will to all, Democrats and Republicans alike. Everyone has been able to share in Christmas: the carol-singers, the people who lovingly fendle Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as well as those who parody...