Word: typist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he dressed up like a hillbilly for a high school skit, he was funnier than a bowlegged mule. But later on, after he graduated from the University of Alabama and worked for a spell in New York City as a typist, he came back with a highfalutin accent, and no body thought he was funny any more...
...blast because many corporations, squeezed by shortages of office workers and rising wages, are not even trying to keep full staffs at the typewriters. When the need arises, they happily pay a premium for part-time help. In New York, for example, a temporary-help supplier might pay a typist the going rate of $2.50 an hour, but the company she works for is billed for $3.30-a 30% markup...
Whitehall was aghast in 1948 when London University Law Student Seretse Khama, young chief of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, wooed and won London Typist Ruth Williams. She was a white woman, which was bound to cause trouble among the natives. Quietly, Whitehall asked the couple to live out of sight in England. Politely they refused-and when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week...
Miner gets grateful letters from former students and, though an erratic typist, pecks out warm answers. He says he is amazed and happy when some company president, for example, quotes something Miner said that changed his outlook on life?"but of course I never remember saying...
...only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...