Word: chores
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...Because it is only then that the world, as you have seen it through your own eyes, will begin to tell you things about yourself." In several stories, the black cooks, gardeners and domestics take on a voyeuristic burden: they are the servants who literally do the messy chore of living for their masters...
Mondale, on the other hand, had erased doubts that he belonged on the same stage with Reagan by performing so adroitly in their first encounter. His confidence had soared, and now his advisers had the chore of devising a strategy that would build on his earlier success. They felt that he could be tougher on Reagan in the foreign policy debate, where the Democrats claimed to have a stronger case. They urged Mondale to be a prosecutor, applying constant pressure...
...crew of Challenger, it was a peculiarly ambiguous mission, which combined show-stopping successes with exasperating glitches. Mission Specialist Kathryn Sullivan, 33, became the first American woman to walk in space, but her celestial stroll was encumbered with an unscheduled, mundane chore: helping fellow Space Walker and Specialist David Leetsma, 35, fasten a balky antenna atop the shuttle...
...woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty valve assembly on the main propulsion engine. Says one admiring NASA official of the complex repair chore: "It was one helluva job to do, but the Soviets...
...throat-clearing chore of drafting a platform was complete, and the rafter-reaching speeches were about to begin. Inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center, workmen folded down the last bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable...