Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock, women and students clear out, and the theatre settles into total silence. The only sound is the usher, thrashing about as he watches the screen over his shoulder...
...come from the audience. During one recent from the audience. During one recent film in which the screen goes black and a passionate panting can be heard, a colored kid in the first row cut loose with an enviable imitation of a cat in heat that made even the usher laugh...
...Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and despair. With the road come jobs, and with the jobs come large payrolls ($1.75 to $2.50 a day for laborers) that enrich the local economy and help usher in such 20th. century conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able to trade more easily with neighboring villages and get their products out to bigger urban markets. Eventually, Belaunde hopes to relocate almost 1,000,000 peasants from the more...
Garner was no mere usher for the New Deal. He was its midwife, using his years of Capitol Hill experience to ram much of F.D.R.'s program through Congress in the famous "first 100 days." Just as fellow Texans Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would do later, Garner operated behind the scenes. Through the first two F.D.R. terms he stayed hitched to Roosevelt, whom he called "Cap'n." A lifelong foe of Eastern banking interests, he had been a major force in forging a graduated income tax, guaranteeing bank deposits, and baiting big business. Garner worked loyally for Roosevelt...
Dunster House Committee, social chairman; freshman baseball; varsity baseball; intramural basketball; St. Paul's Catholic Club; Pre-Law Society; Pi Eta Club; junior usher...