Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social justice has so often fallen to them to defend. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. Rosa Parks was a tired seamstress who shoved history forward by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Mechelle Vinson was a bank teller who, having grown weary of a boss who she said forced her to trade sex for professional survival, won the unanimous Supreme Court decision that established the laws on sexual harassment once and for all. The latest to claim her place in line is Anita Hill, a private, professional woman unwilling...
Andy is the master story-teller. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous, he urges everyone he meets to spill their guts. No one escapes without regurgitating a short story about themselves. The subjects range from supermarket apocalypses to tales of Texlahoma, an asteroid orbiting earth where it is perpetually...
However, no one was willing to accept the Peace Prize for Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and SDI supporter. The band played the theme from "Star Wars" instead...
...matter how unglamorous it may seem, there is still something exciting about saying, "Frank will be with you in just a second" to Corben Bernson or Lou Diamond Phillips. My biggest coup was talking to Teller of "Penn and Teller," the magical comedy team. Teller is the one who never gets to say anything on stage...
...their situation is, the problems afflict middle-class children as well. Even high school graduates are coming up short in meeting the demands of the workplace. Chemical Bank has reported that it must interview 40 high school graduates to find one person who can be trained to become a teller. All they are seeking is eighth-grade-level skills, and they cannot find them in most high school graduates...