Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one other pleasant chore for the President before he drove to his Gettysburg farm to spend the New Year holiday: the presidential gift to 1,100 White House employes, including the crew of the Columbine III, naval personnel from Camp David, motor-pool mechanics and servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President...
...then the author has left his chore behind him. His interest is that of the scholar, advancing but not selling ideas and thoughts. He is as heedless of praise as censure, has no idea how many readers attend him, and does not care: "To worry about the size of your audience is like taking your blood pressure every...
...friendly calm of any normal kindergarten. What made it doubly so was the children's custodians, placid-looking young women in their early 20s, who spoke little but seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think on a level close to that of their charges (aged two to twelve) but have the maternal feelings of adult women...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Charles Van Doren, in his first big chore since he reached his TV majority (over Twenty One), does the narration for a documentary on the American Indian...
...professors and courses have been added to revitalize the departments and Harvard has recognized that language teaching is important "not as a chore, but as an important task," Levin added...