Word: housewifey
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Abbott figures that her housewifey style has been a tactical advantage. "They weren't scared of me." One day when Baird & McGuire was still operating, she arrived at the executive office unannounced, went in to see Cameron Baird, the head of the company, and got a firsthand look at the contamination from him. A public meeting last June with EPA officials at Holbrook High School, Abbott says, "was a real lynch mob. And I think I led it." She sounds both abashed and proud. The EPA had intended simply to present its latest findings. Instead its representatives faced the point...
...over six months Chicago has supported a hillbilly horror which advertises that it "Makes Tobacco Road Blush." Maid in the Ozarks, written by housewifey, Ozark-born Claire Parrish, is no spoof, but a serious mountaineerful. Though the management plays it up as "Bawdy! Lusty! Unashamed!" its real stock in trade is not sex but unsavoriness -bedbugs and bedroom crockery, belches and body scratching, hogcalls and outhouses, a halfwit boy who picks his toes on the breakfast table and rubs his face with worms...
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