Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Becoming a nanny required a long, menial apprenticeship, beginning with a scrub brush on the nursery floor. In time, a girl with nanny-potential could move up to undernurse, then nurse, and finally full nanny. The author dates the flourishing of this system from about 1850, when the Industrial Revolution increased the wealthy class in England and pried a large population of potential servants loose from the land...
...still soliciting American support in protesting the nuclear testing, but he admitted some discouragement. "How they [Americans] respond to this is their business," he said. "But I have tried to remind all the democratic countries who were in World War II of an agreement that no country would brush aside smaller countries by rule of force...
...defense of the seven arrested Watergate burglars. By late in the year, the defendants had been paid $460,000. Kalmbach used Ulasewicz for many of the hush-money deliveries; the two conversed from public telephone booths and used code names ("Mr. Rivers" for Ulasewicz, "the Writer" for Hunt, "the Brush" for Haldeman). Kalmbach decided to pull out of this illegal activity and did so in September...
...sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...
...tell you a story. When I was five or six or seven. I was playing with matches behind the garage. There was lots of brush there. It caught fire and burned down the back of the garage...