Word: handmaiden
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...would have the American people recognize, and contemplate in dread, the fact that the Communist Party -a relatively small group of deadly conspirators-has now extended its tentacles to that most respected of American bodies, the U.S. Senate; that it has made a committee of the Senate its unwitting handmaiden...
...long years in politics, Committee Member Ed Johnson has been called many things. But when he heard of McCarthy's statement, Colorado's tough, burly Johnson gruffed: "This is the first time I've ever been called a handmaiden...
...from her transparent lucite bed (which lights up like a neon tube at the flip of a switch), is always in such a hurry that she breaks into a trot in darting about her salon. Although she has made an estimated $30 million as beauty's handmaiden, she still feels her selling needs constant rejuvenating. She noticed that the woman customer frequently bought two jars of cream-one for her husband. So she began a line of men's cosmetics and toilet goods named after her husband. With her new plant, she plans to expand Gourielli production (which...
Davis had bought his stubby, broad-beamed ketch a year before. Originally named the "Soubrette" (meaning "handmaiden"), it was rechristened by Davis the "Miru," who according to a Polynessian legend is the daughter of the Sun God. She had eight brothers, all of whom were commanded by the sun God to commit incest with her; other than her mother, Miru unfortunately was the only woman on the earth at the time. Miru produced the ancestors of the Polynessian race...
...years, the Bank of England, London's famed "Old Lady of Thread-needle Street," has been a forgotten woman. She has had no control over Britain's easy-money financial policy, has been merely the government handmaiden forced to keep the policy in operation. But last week, as the Conservative government announced its new financial measures (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Old Lady came back to power with a youthful bounce. She announced, with a nod of approval from Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Butler, that she would again exercise control over Britain's money supply...