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...America, aboard one of three ships that would land at Jamestown, one passenger seemed to grate on the rest like a splintered oar. He was a stocky, sawed-off stub of a man; a seasoned war fighter with a valiant past he seldom tired of highlighting; an unconscionable braggart of modest means who resented the blue bloods among the group; a bigmouthed know-it-all with a sanctimonious air and little or no regard for decorum. His name was John Smith...
...month after their arrival, the laborers say, it got worse. "We started getting less and less hours," says the Dominican guest worker, adding that he averaged 24 hours a week. Another showed lawyers a two-week pay stub...
...didn’t expect to start forming any opinions at the ticket window, and I might have felt a little guilty about doing it, if others in the lobby hadn’t been vocalizing the same.According to the top of my ticket stub, Nick A. Noyer ’09 and Peter C. Shields ’09 presented “A Chorus Line,” which will run through Nov. 4, at the Agassiz Theatre on Friday night. If they had any new, daring artistic vision to justify the extra attention (an ordinary program credit...
...years since they have bargained their way to health-care coverage, personal days and vacation time. When Gray recently told a group of Cincinnati janitors about her wages, health-care coverage and vacation time, "they didn't believe me," she says. "They wanted to see my pay stub...
...Force Base, slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first...