Word: washer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first book Down and Out in Paris and London records in an oral-tactile way what it was like to be a dish washer, a tramp and a louse-ridden outsider. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he experienced the squalor of hopelessness while his pink pals were pitying the proletariat. At the end of his life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic...
...generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country A Go-Go" (hillbilly music and rock) where they "jest set" and tip back straight shots of bourbon. Arguments start, fists and knives flail, blood is spilled. As one Appalachian woman complained recently, while...
...Chicago has accepted Charles Jones, 18, a Negro from Chicago's Marshall High School whose College Board test scores were far below those of most incoming freshmen. But Dean of Admissions Anthony Pallett is confident that Jones, who has worked 40 hours a week as a dish washer to help support his family, "knows where he's going, and he's determined to get there...
...Laundromat there. She and Mabel next door are going to a theater matinee in the Mustang, but she will be back in plenty of time to take the lamb chops out of the freezer and fix dinner. And they will get the dishes into the automatic washer before 7:30 so they can watch The King and I in color...
...ambitious $80,000-a-year president, Lewis W. Dymond, 47. The crew-cut Dymond, whom strangers have often mistaken for ex-Astronaut John Glenn, took charge at Frontier in 1962 after a 24-year career at National Airlines, during which time he rose from a $50-a-month plane washer and apprentice mechanic to vice president for operations, engineering and maintenance. At Frontier, he has got rid of most of its piston-engine planes in favor of 21 propjet Convair 580s and five Boeing tri-jet 727s. "We are lean and hungry," says Dymond, "but we have...