Word: apprenticeship
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...Chattanooga, the tradition was chiefly borne by Sulzberger's second child, Ruth, who also made a good marriage. Her choice was Ben Hale Golden, a Kentuckian who, after marrying Ruth, put in a long apprenticeship on the Chattanooga paper and by 1957 had worked his way up to publisher...
Never Question. If it sounds like as tough an apprenticeship as that of midshipmen in Captain Bligh's day, it is. Shields would not have it otherwise. He is dedicated to the idea that the important thing in sailing is racing, and the important thing in racing is winning. If any man is interested in sailing merely to enjoy the sensation of having his boat driven by the wind, Shields is not for him, and he is not for Shields. As a Johnny-come-lately to ocean racing (in 1946), Shields was appalled to find that...
Under Fuchsberg's plan, law students would take "field trips" to courtrooms and work on cases under the supervision of trial lawyers in an apprenticeship program...
...discrimination in employment emphasized the responsibilities of private as well as government enterprises in ensuring Negro job opportunities. It cautioned, however, against "discrimination in reverse" through quota systems which would give Negroes preference over more capable whites. A Fair Employment Practices Commission to oversee both hiring practice and union apprenticeship regulations was also proposed...
...level of realism, the Cheever biography is just another success story -of a man reaping the modest rewards of recognition after a lifetime of devoted apprenticeship, journeyman years, and final mastery of a difficult trade. His spiritual biography is something else again, seen clearly only in terms of his own severe moral vision. He sees man not in modern terms as any individual but as the center of a system of obligations. Evasion or betrayal of these obligations may be punishable by metamorphosis into some monstrous, less-than-human form. Life, he writes, is "a perilous moral journey." The freaks...