Word: shoes
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...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...idea sketched on the back of a paper bag," says Jack McMahon, head of the development group for Parker Bros., the big Massachusetts game manufacturer responsible for Monopoly, that company's alltime bestseller. A couple of years ago an extraordinary little group managed to get a shoe in Parker Bros.' door: a Cambridge astronomer named Robert Doyle, his wife Holly, an astrophysicist who taught at Harvard, and her brother Wendl Thomis, a New York computer software expert. They had given themselves a name, Microcosmos, like a rock group, and what was more interesting, they had an idea...
Cousin, Cousine. At the Harvard Square, Friday at 1:35, 4:50, and 8:10. With Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe...
Instead of issuing editorial commands from headquarters, today's chains practice something called "local editorial autonomy," a soft-shoe phrase that can cover a lot of omissions. Now that more than 95% of American communities are without competing papers, a monopoly paper can be as much of a gold mine as a TV station. On chain papers, editors and publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs...
...Chicago, Juan Maldonado capped a drinking bout by beating his eight-year-old son with a shoe, so wife Gloria, 32, shot him three times. The state's attorney ruled there was "insufficient evidence" to warrant her prosecution...