Word: closetfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...served as an intelligence officer, but was passed over for full colonel twice because he didn't hide his contempt for incompetent superiors. His mother was the gentle buddy who sometimes let her kids stay home from school just to be with mom, but would hide them in the closet at lunchtime when Bob came home so he wouldn't get angry. Newt never openly challenged his father's strict rules. He just ignored them...
...ZERO CUSTOMIZED REFRIGERATORS The company that made industrial steel fridges a thing of beauty and status has deconstructed the icebox. Sub-Zero has developed technology that will allow kitchen mavens to refrigerate the most unlikely spaces: an overhead cabinet, a closet, a row of drawers. The box has vanished. This is the stuff that Martha Stewart's dreams are made...
Elisa's life became an excruciating alternation of happiness and horror. The four-year-old took the Friends School's screening examination and passed. But according to Montessori teacher Barbara Simmons, she also began telling people that her mother had locked her in a closet. On one occasion she volunteered, "Awilda hits me. I don't want to go to Awilda." Montessori principal Bryce says she reported suspected abuse to both the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services and a child-abuse hot line--the CWA's second warning about Elisa. In response, Bryce has said, child-welfare workers made several...
...Sandy has told Case that Bruce twice fired a shotgun in the house, once while four-year-old Charlie was seated in Sandy's lap, another time as eight-year-old Amber huddled in a closet. "I have a problem with you putting your children at risk with this man," Case tells her. "Your little girl is way too O.K. with this, and that's not O.K. She thinks this is a way of life, and she'll find a man who hurts her too." Sandy agrees to send the two youngest children to her mother's home...
...problem, from their point of view, isn't just Buchanan's reputation as (depending on which of his critics you consult) a demagogue, an anti-Semite or a closet fascist. Equally problematic is his eclectic extremism--far right on social issues, well to the left on trade, a frequent dissenter from the party line...