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janitor

[jan-i-ter] / ˈdʒæn ɪ tər /


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The film’s last act follows a massive reenactment at a Medford, Ore., high school, where a “mass casualty drill” was scheduled after a janitor turned himself into police before acting on homicidal thoughts.

From Los Angeles Times

Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.

From The Wall Street Journal

A museum guard stood outside the bathroom, and janitors cleaned the piece every 15 minutes or so.

From The Wall Street Journal

Marty comes of age in the Hill Valley of 1985, where vandals have shellacked the high school with so much graffiti that the janitors seem to have given up.

From Los Angeles Times

Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

From Salon