Word: cooks
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...California Governor's campaign, she offered to recruit volunteers in Portland's Multnomah County. She was on her phone so much, running up monthly $200 phone bills, that her banker husband bought her a shoulder resting device and an extra long cord so that she could cook while she talked. Says she: "My children never went hungry. Of course, I left a lot of notes for them when they came home saying, 'Here's your lunch.' " Her reward: Reagan won a respectable 20% of the vote in the state...
...took her a while to gather up some stories to tell. After just a few months at Brigham Young, she hitched northeast to Minnesota and got a job as a short-order cook in a joint where she could sing when business was slow. She dyed her sandy hair black, put on some weight and tried to sing like Joan Baez. "I sang foul, I looked foul," she says. Her folks found her and brought her home...
...matter what the inconvenience. "When I want to restock the cupboard I have to come back to the city and buy everything there," says one Moscow schoolteacher, who vacations in the suburbs. "Our dacha also needs a new roof, so my husband bangs and works all day while I cook meals on a hotplate and fight mosquitoes." Many vacationers relish swapping tales of the challenges of their rustic lives. But give up those precious days in the country? Nyet...
Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any woman without a husband. Anyone found at home after the receipt of this order will be hanged...
Reclining in an easy chair and sipping tea prepared by his fag, an Eton senior, 18, recalls: "I didn't exactly enjoy being a fag myself, but thanks to some Library boys who threw their eggs in my direction when I didn't cook them properly, I know all about poached eggs." Still, the practice must go at Eton, as it has already elsewhere in Britain. Says Old Etonian Lord Redcliffe-Maud: "It's a source of misunderstanding by outsiders, who regard fagging as a brutal form of slavery. It's nothing like that of course...