Word: housework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces now find themselves "freed" to contribute the family pots and pans to a scrap-metal drive and turn their attention from housework to such progressive tasks as "road building, tree planting and ditch digging...
...Orem last week, his shocked and disbelieving relatives offered ample contrary evidence. To them, Dean was a happy, creative, intelligent child, who did unusually well in school, helped his mother with housework, went swimming with his father and haying with his beloved grandfather. The toil and discipline of getting through medical school made Dean's father a no-nonsense man, but the Nimers were conspicuously unquarrelsome. According to everyone, they were very happy people, and so too was Dean. The Orem pediatrician who examined him for five years called him robustly healthy; Utah's sole children...
...high school sweetheart, a nice family and a happy, secure family life had been their goals. Melvin got a pharmacy degree, decided to switch to medicine, went back to medical school at the University of Utah. Loujean helped out their budget by working as a secretary, did her housework nights while Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned in the Public Health Service Hospital, then to Phoenix, finally to Staten Island for his promising $5,700-a-year surgical post. In Staten Island the Nimers made the first...
...Barlow told it to the police, she had returned to their Bradford home at lunch time from the laundry where she worked, done some housework, and gone to bed right after tea. At 9:20 p.m., Barlow said, he found she had vomited in bed, so he changed the linen. She took off her sweat-soaked pajamas and went to take a bath. He dozed. At 11:20 he awoke, found her in the tub, drowned. He pulled the plug and, said he, tried artificial respiration to no avail...
Depressed after the operation, she tried vainly to adopt a second child. She lost interest in housework, devoted hours to playing with her daughter, sometimes reversing their roles. When her husband became interested in a more mature woman, she quickly seized upon pregnancy as the only means of keeping her home and selfesteem. Last year she developed all the symptoms of pseudocyesis, including the same sharp decrease in the insulin required to control her diabetes that she had experienced in her real pregnancies...