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...acre site near the tiny village of Burlington and commuting 35 minutes to work. "Everything we had, we put into this home," she recalls. One afternoon the Webers came home to find "glass all over. They'd smashed the window into the kitchen. Everything was gone through ?every drawer, every room...
...Weber felt that their house had been sullied. "I scrubbed the walls. I took the curtains down and washed them. I would open a drawer to put on clean clothes and think about my personal things, 'Oh, God, I've got to wash them. I don't know who had their hands on them.' " She and her husband took different shifts so one of them would always be home. They started locking their doors, even if one of them was merely going out to the garden...
...deputy editor reaches into his desk drawer for a nip. It is time to change the subject...
...down his consumption, he keeps a pack of Merits in a desk drawer, so that he has to make an extra effort to get them...
...highest average in the freshman class. The chairman's wife called me into her office again. We did a replay of the same scene we had played during the first week of the term. She complimented me on my grades. Then she reached into a drawer and pulled out a copy of the freshman English final examination. She asked me to take the exam over again...