Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Pressler was beginning his candidacy, a reporter asked South Dakota Republican Chairman Dan Parish what he thought. Said Parish: "I can sum it up in three words-ha, ha, ha." But the junior Senator from South Dakota does not think his candidacy is a joke. "When I ran for...
The Star Ranch was a legal brothel, and Fran York, its madam for the past eight years, not only ran one of the best little whorehouses in Nye County but was a highly respected member of the community. She helped buy uniforms for the local high school band, she regularly...
The main reason: the exercise in democracy costs $400, a hefty sum for Morrison where the yearly budget of $18,000 operates the street lights, paves streets, and runs a public library and volunteer fire department. The only paid municipal employee is a part-time city recorder who earns $50...
LOOSE ENDS At Circle in the Square, Paul and Susan fall in love on the beach in Bali. A peace corps volunteer who has spent two years teaching natives to build latrines, Paul wants to go home to a real job: teaching English at a Philadelphia private school. Susan, a...
Jossif Sack, one of six volunteer Israeli doctors at Sakaew, told Clark: "We can't figure it out. When I am treating a patient here and causing pain, everyone starts to laugh. Is there something in their personality that makes them laugh when they see people dying or in...