Word: broom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old wife took his paycheck every week, gave him only $1.50 for bus tokens, retrieved the tokens and doled them out to him two a day, forced him to buy coffee from coins he found while sweeping the café, whacked him on the shins with a broom when he tried to see his children by a previous marriage...
Soviet leaders have openly admitted use of the purge for their own purposes, and Brzezinski quotes Stalin as having once said: "I believe that some time, from time to time, the master must without fall go through the ranks of the Party with a broom in his hand...
...make the audience see not only the horror of the heroine's life but the rye humor of it, too. Jo Van Fleet is even more accomplished and convincing as the sort of stage mother who rides a child's life as a witch rides a broom...
Comforts of Home. In Hoehenrain, Germany, after police barred Broom Maker Hans Christian Sachsenhammer from local bars because of excessive drinking, Sachsenhammer's wife petitioned to have the ban lifted, explained: "Now he has his beer delivered to the house, throws the empty bottles at the children and works even less than before...
...spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus. His flat is on the floor above hers; when she wants him, she bangs on the ceiling with a broom, and he sneaks down through the dumbwaiter. Then one day her husband sails in through the door...