Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock and starts his arduous pilgrimage-an hour by bike, an hour by bus, two hours by train, another half-hour by bus, and then a last 20 minutes on the bike. Twenty-nine bald and bewigged girls, taking van Rooijen's treatments, have sought out household jobs in Een. As a result Een, unlike the rest of Holland, has no servant shortage...
...only too happy to pardon all error, especially his own. His former son-in-law, Sir Roderick Shelley, strives to be an impartial judge, especially when it would cause him discomfort to take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible, even by cheating their...
Last week, in Paris, a greying cavalry officer, the Marquis Andre de Belleval, fleetingly rustled the tatters of the once great legend of Petain. He and some 500 other sympathizers of the old man attended a public auction of Petain's books and household effects (no ribbons, no medals), which the government had confiscated after his trial in 1945. At first there was icy silence. Then the Marquis mounted a chair and, waving his cane, he demanded that the sale end at once...
Gardner lives on a 3,000-acre ranch about 100 miles from Los Angeles, with a staff of eight-including a business manager, secretaries and household help. His mail is peppered with requests for legal aid, and frequently he rides forth to aid the underdog. His conditions for taking on such cases are unvarying: the person must have been convicted of a major crime, he must have no money, he must have exhausted all other legal means...
...correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only about 1,200, most of them taken from the newly dead, have passed through the bank (actually, a household-type electric refrigerator) since it was organized five years...