Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet times between parties, the Sultan has found time to keep his household stocked with the requisite number of permissible wives; they have borne him 20-odd children. Wife No. 1, the "official consort," is the daughter of a neighboring sultan, but Wife No. 4 found her way to the Sultan's side via the dance halls of Kuala Lumpur. As the mother of the Sultan's latest-born son, she has been generally considered the royal favorite...
...pitching in until the cops arrived. Yma's dark glasses fell off in the struggle, disclosing a black eye that had been presented earlier by her husband as a token of his esteem. Wailed Vivanco in court at week's end: "I and the members of my household are in fear of our lives...
...Foreign Service Regulations state: "As a rule, a diplomatic representative or consular officer shall not extend asylum to persons out side of his official or personal household. Refuge may be afforded to uninvited fugitives whose lives are in imminent danger from mob violence but only for the period during which active danger continues...
...raised her family in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1945 helped set up a state safety-planning program. From this she slid into a post as research assistant in pharmacology at the University of Rochester, and did what came naturally-concentrated on the effects of chemicals widely used in cosmetics, household disinfectants and cleaning fluids, dyes, paints, insecticides and shoe polishes...
...particularly the 60 poison-antidote centers now being set up across the U.S. In one alphabetical section (more than 800 pages), it lists 15,000 products by their trade names, with the chemical content where the manufacturers are willing to disclose it. There is a wealth of detail on household compounds, the poisons they contain, and the antidotes. Samples...