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- The top search result for "Unless you leave a leg behind" was a news article called "How White-Collar Fugitives Survive on the Lam"; the quote in question referred to how difficult it is to fake your own death.† (source)
- Alongside these conflicting norms about the value of blue-collar work existed a massive ignorance about how to achieve white-collar work.† (source)
- That was why I was with a blue-collar agency instead of a white-collar agency.† (source)
- She has hopes for him: graduation from high school, a white-collar job, maybe as an engineer.† (source)
- He began to sink into a rapidly fraying gentility, punctuated with a few of the white-collar occupations available to black people, regardless of their noble bloodlines, in America: desk clerk at a colored hotel in Chicago, insurance agent, traveling salesman for a cosmetics firm catering to blacks.† (source)
- Third, the subscribers can be described as middle-income white-collar workers from the suburbs: teachers, middle management, civil service workers.† (source)
- You know, white-collar stiffs.† (source)
- My lawyer, Pat Cotter, had sent his share of white-collar clients off to prison.† (source)
- Then you hear the melody again, one more time, the familiar march from Prokofiev, not the mock-heroic organ but full orchestra now, and the pitch is very different, forget the amusing radio reminiscence, it is all vigilance and suppression, the FBI in peace and war and day and night, your own white-collar cohort of the law.† (source)
- The usual white-collar crowd gathered at the Tea Shoppe for breakfast and coffee, never tea, not at such an early hour.† (source)
- On weekends, he enjoyed working with his hands, a break from his white-collar job as a regional inspector for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.† (source)
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- Probably had a wife and two kids and a steady white-collar job that allowed him to slip away for an hour once a week for his nooner.† (source)
- The white-collar workers along Lemmon Avenue are few in number and unexcited.† (source)
- The country had no clear image of what he looked like: his photographs had appeared on the covers of magazines as frequently as those of his predecessors in office, but people could never be quite certain which photographs were his and which were pictures of "a mail clerk" or "a white-collar worker," accompanying articles about the daily life of the undifferentiated-except that Mr. Thompson's collars were usually wilted.† (source)
- Some 45 percent of the men in the Union sample had held professional or white-collar jobs in civilian life, compared with about 11 percent for the Union army as a whole.† (source)
- I defended murderers, thieves, drug dealers, prostitutes, white-collar embezzlers, wife beaters, and drunk drivers.† (source)
- In fact, none of us were stereotypical duck hunters; we're not the white-collar guys who dress up in camo on the weekends and go hunting.† (source)
- This bloke that Hanby spoke to (he was just a little, ordinary chap with specs, white-collar type) said it had been so sudden—spontaneous was what he meant—and it just proved to Hanby once again how incendiary was the fabric of the capitalist system.† (source)
- There is nothing anywhere in her records to indicate that she could hold down a white-collar job.† (source)
- Though she was hardly rich, she wanted her kids to get an education, obtain white-collar work, and marry well-groomed middle-class folks—people, in other words, who were nothing like Mamaw and Papaw.† (source)
- ON JULY 20 Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement, a pretty typical "split sentence" for white-collar criminals but far below the maximum for her conviction.† (source)
- In the Union army the disparity between comparable groups—professionals and high white-collar occupations on one hand and low white-collar and blue-collar workers on the other—was much less, only about 25 percent.† (source)
- Compared to the drug offenders, the "white-collar" criminals had often demonstrated a lot more avarice, though their crimes were rarely glamorous—bank fraud, insurance fraud, credit card scams, check kiting.† (source)
- The twoand-one-half-to-one majority for emancipation in my sample also probably overstates the margin in the army as a whole, because proemancipation sentiment was strongest among those groups overrepresented in the sample—officers, and men from professional and white-collar occupations—and underrepresents the less educated soldiers from blue-collar and immigrant backgrounds among whom antiblack and antiemancipation attitudes were strongest.† (source)
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