Word: manless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...important observer, and it might be expected that events would arrange themselves so that she could see, if not wholly comprehend, what happens to the other characters. She does see a good deal, but unfortunately she misses more. 'No one, for instance, knows that Dan and the cheerfully manless Anna were lovers 15 years...
...least the facade is possible. Her husband's letters counsel the children to study and not watch too much television; they inquire whether she has got braces for Mike, the oldest at 13. Mrs. Grumpier has other problems in a manless house. "I tried to sell a car and I couldn't find?what do you call it ?the title." And she has a problem with Mike that her dentist cannot handle, nor can she. The blond, rangy boy was switched from offense to linebacker on the defensive platoon for his junior high school football team and came home...