Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial north of England from which he drew almost all his best material. His family had just struggled out of the potteries to a tenuous hold in the middle class. Arnold was an insatiably self-educating fellow. When he left home for London at 21, he had mastered shorthand, made a start on French and begun reading any "masterpiece" whose existence he had discovered. He clerked in London for several years, gradually making his way into the bourgeois musicale-and-reading set in Chelsea. His new friends had to coax him to try writing...
...earned the nickname "Gloomy Gus" for his cautious, pessimistic, Depression-bred outlook, Nixon finished third in his class. Unable to land work with a major New York law firm (he also tried the FBI), he returned to practice in Whittier, where he met Thelma Catherine ("Pat") Ryan, who taught shorthand and typing at the local high school. They were married after a two-year courtship and set up housekeeping in an apartment over a garage...
...completely certain how any of the eight Justices would fall. Yet each Justice has a record that law professors and others continually consult in trying to assess how he may rule in a specific case. TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, a lawyer himself, has surveyed such experts and offered this shorthand guide to the eight Justices as they forge their portentous decision...
Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was. His leanest years were in Paris in the early '20s when, he claimed later, he was obliged to live on dried figs and use the hallucinations caused by hunger to loosen up his imagery. Even then Miró managed to raise the money to journey back to his family village of Montroig, a community of farmers and peasant craftsmen, where he spent six months of every year...
...cold, off-season months as a security guard. His wife earns $9,400 as a secretary to David Robinson III, a black lawyer who is regional counsel to Xerox. She started in secretarial work by enrolling in a three-month program in which IBM paid people to study shorthand, typing and English. Now she is learning to be a legal secretary so that she can earn still more...