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His career had begun inauspiciously: a lowly teenaged “button pusher” at EMI’s Abbey Road studios in the early 1960s, his biggest success had been engineering Manfred Mann’s No 1 hit Pretty Flamingo.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2018

At this exciting juncture of affairs, Mr. McKim, who had been engineering this important undertaking, deemed it expedient to change the programme slightly in one particular at least to insure greater safety.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William