Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throbbing with the ardent and unabashed pursuit of money. As the pace picks up, the shouts of jostling men rise like the roar of the crowd at Churchill Downs when it's neck and neck in the home stretch of the Kentucky Derby. The participants are dressed like stockroom clerks in brightly colored cloth jackets, and they are flashing elaborate hand signals to each other and yelling phrases in a jargon all their own. "Even 17 D's!" cries one exasperated figure as he elbows for room. Another day of seeking fortunes has begun at the 130-year...
...Opens Stockroom...
David Nhaera, a Harvard coordinator for the UFW, said yesterday that three witnesses say they saw Teamsters lettuce in the stockroom of the store last Friday, at the same time that signs were displayed in the store claiming that only UFW lettuce was being sold...
...slipped them on, and it was like Superman in the stockroom at the Daily Planet, a large metropolitan newspaper. I walked around the place with this really cocky stride and checked them out in the mirror. I was too much. I wondered how I put up with those ??? ??? booties for so long...
Sixteen years ago, John F. (for Francis, not Fitzgerald) Kennedy, a former employee of a Boston stockroom, followed a similarly named Senator into Massachusetts politics. The lesser J.F.K. parlayed his name into election as state treasurer. This year a Cleveland businessman who also happens to be John F. (for Francis) Kennedy is running for Ohio secretary of state. Others have potent patronymics supported by heritage. Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois state treasurer, is after a U.S. Senate seat. Robert Taft Jr. wants to represent Ohio in the Senate...